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Word entry · 5 letters

shout

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"Yell"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ʃaʊt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted hostuStarts with SEnds with T1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. use foul or abusive language towards

Word origin

From Middle English shouten. Further origin uncertain. Possibly related to Middle English shooten (“to shoot (out)”) or from or akin to Old Norse skúta (“to chide, scold”), Old Norse skúti, skúta (“a taunt”). See also the second, rare sense of the verb scout (“to reject with contempt”).

Used in a sentence

  • give out a shout
  • hear a desperate shout
  • an ear-piercing shout

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