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yelling

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United States

The act of producing a yell.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of yellpresent participle and gerund of yell

Etymology

From Middle English yellynge, ȝellynge; equivalent to yell + -ing.

noun

  1. 1

    The act of producing a yell.

Forms

plural
yellings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).