Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common vulgar form of
hollo .
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- noun In South Midland and Southern (dialects of American English), a
hollow . - noun A rural road in the
Appalachians in the U.S.A. - noun A
yell ,shout . - noun By extension, any communication to get somebody's attention.
- verb intransitive To
yell orshout . - verb transitive To
call out one or more words - verb To
complain ,gripe
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- noun a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
- verb complain
- verb shout out
- verb utter a sudden loud cry
- noun a small valley between mountains
Etymologies
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Examples
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But apparently a "holler" is just a "hollow" – a valley between mountains – in West Virginia.
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But the opener did turn a bit testy in the eighth when Grant Balfour hit J.D. Drew in the right shoulder with a high fastball, prompting a few Red Sox to holler from the bench.
USATODAY.com 2008
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Some folks want to conserve energy and avoid making the trek to the 4th floor walk-up apartment, so they will just holler from the street below.
Archive 2008-01-01 Nupur 2008
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But the opener did turn a bit testy in the eighth inning when Grant Balfour hit J.D. Drew in the right shoulder with a high fastball, prompting a few Red Sox to holler from the bench.
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His mother (?) and another 40-something woman were helping him carry things down the stairs, as were two teenaged girls -- one of which I would surely recognize if she were to holler from the stairwell (where the acoustics promise hearty echos), HEY, BRADLEY IS PISSING IN THE PARKING LOT!
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Then claim your title or holler at the guard so you can conduct your business elsewhere.
Push Comes to Shove Oasis 2010
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Also: I have a friend who is a casting director and he said that he spent all of Wednesday looking for "holler" Canadians with weird flat faces.
A SOPRANOS MOVIE? 2008
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Similar to the posting by Jeff4066, "Fair to middlin '" was a common response to, "How are you?" in my hometown, and I was in college before it was really driven home that "holler" isn't proper English for "large ditch, etc ..."
Long-Lost Language 2008
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Also: I have a friend who is a casting director and he said that he spent all of Wednesday looking for "holler" Canadians with weird flat faces.
A SOPRANOS MOVIE? 2008
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That's why we put that it's in a 'holler' in the mountains.
Archive 2008-02-01 Kay Olson 2008
bilby commented on the word holler
Eenie, meenie, minie, mo,
Catch a tiger by the toe,
If he hollers let him go,
Eenie, meenie, minie, mo.
- traditional.
November 4, 2008
qroqqa commented on the word holler
Oh, I didn't know 'tiger' was traditional. I have learnt something.
November 4, 2008
rolig commented on the word holler
"Tiger" was what I learned as a child from my parents, who understood that the version they had grown up with, or at least my Virginian mother had grown up with, in which an African-American was the object of the hunt, was no longer acceptable in polite society.
November 4, 2008
sarra commented on the word holler
I grew up with your mother's version, too, rolig.
November 4, 2008
bilby commented on the word holler
The book from which I transcribed this version, using tiger rather than what rhymes with Tigger, was published in 1957.
November 4, 2008
dontcry commented on the word holler
It was 'tiger' for me, too -- but I remember hearing the other version from time to time when we moved around the country.
November 4, 2008