shoutingn.
/ˈʃaʊtɪŋ/ The action of shout v.
1. † b. Applied to the song of birds. Obsolete.† c. An election carried out by acclamation.† e. Loud support for a particular candidate. U.S. Obsolete.
a. Loud crying, uproar, clamour; vociferous applause, acclamation; an instance of this.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > outcry or clamour
reamOE
ropeOE
brack?c1200
utas1202
hootinga1225
berec1225
noise?c1225
ludea1275
cryc1275
gredingc1275
boastc1300
utasa1325
huec1330
outcrya1382
exclamation1382
ascry1393
spraya1400
clamourc1405
shoutingc1405
scry1419
rumourc1425
motion?a1439
bemec1440
harrowc1440
shout1487
songa1500
brunt1523
ditec1540
uproar1544
clamouring1548
outrage1548
hubbub1555
racket1565
succlamation1566
rear1567
outcrying1569
bellowing1579
brawl1581
hue and cry1584
exclaiming1585
exclaim1587
sanctus1594
hubbaboo1596
oyez1597
conclamation1627
sputter1673
rout1684
dirduma1693
hallalloo1737
yelloching1773
pillaloo1785
whillaloo1790
vocitation1819
blue murder1828
blaring1837
shilloo1842
shillooing1845
pillalooing1847
shriek1929
yammering1937
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun] > uproar or tumult
brack?c1200
ludea1275
ludingc1275
grede13..
to-doc1330
stevenc1385
ruitc1390
shoutingc1405
rumourc1425
dirdumc1440
shout1487
rippit?1507
glamer?a1513
rangat?a1513
reird?a1513
larumc1515
reirdour1535
uproar1544
clamouring1548
racket1565
baldare1582
rack jack1582
rufflery1582
pother1603
rut1607
clamorousnessa1617
hurricane1639
clutter1656
flaw1676
splutter1677
rout1684
hirdum-dirdum1724
fracas1727
collieshangie1737
racketing1760
hullabaloo1762
hurly1806
bobbery1816
trevally1819
pandemonium1827
hurly-burly1830
outroar1845
on-ding1871
tow-row1877
ruckus1885
molrowing1892
rookus1892
rux1918
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > applause > [noun] > shouted applause
shoutingc1405
cheer1707
huzzaing1708
cheering1779
three times three1813
chuck-up1915
zindabad1938
c1405 (c1385) G. Chaucer Knight's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 2089 Ne how the Grekys..Thries ryden al the fyr aboute..with a loud shoutynge.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxix. 25 Ye noyse, the captaynes and the shoutinge.
1828 P. Egan Boxiana New Ser. I. 174 Cy..fell on him so heavily that the shoutings were—‘He cannot come again.’
1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair xliii. 392 Dobbin..kept up a great shouting.
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the world > animals > birds > sound or bird defined by > [noun] > song
songeOE
lay13..
notec1330
shouting1508
record1582
charm1587
roundelay1588
ramage?1614
ornithology1655
jerk1675
birdsong1834
roll1933
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 184 The skyes rang for schoutyng of the larkis.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > [noun] > election by specific method
prox1669
shouting1679
acclamation1885
coupon election1918
1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 60 Not committing all to the noise and shouting of a rude multitude, but permitting only those of them who are rightly qualifi'd, to nominat as many as they will.]
1679 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, & Event Bks. (1881) II. 139 Captain Pockly fell ill at the shouting at York.
d. it is all over bar (†but, occasionally except) the shouting: said when the result of a contest or the outcome of an action appears certain.
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the world > action or operation > completing > completed or finished [phrase] > the issue appears certain
it is all over bar (but, occasionally except) the shouting1842
1842 ‘Nimrod’ Life Sportsman xvi. 332 It's all over but shouting..Antonio's as dead as a hammer.
a1870 A. L. Gordon Bush Ballads (1876) 35 The race is all over, bar shouting.
1897 National Police Gaz. (U.S.) 26 May 7/4 It was all over ‘bar’ the shouting, but the youngster refused emphatically to give way.
1909 A. Bennett What Public Wants iv. 54 If I wasn't sure that it's all over except the shouting, I wouldn't touch it.
1959 Times 12 June 5/3 In the absence of rain or miracles it was all over bar the shouting at Romford last evening.
1976 Western Morning News 25 Sept. 8/2 But if the Rhodesia affair is all over bar the shouting, can the same be said about South Africa?
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [noun] > loud support for a candidate
shouting1904
1904 Minneapolis Times 29 May 6 Thus far most of the enthusiastic shouting for Gorman can be traced to the Gorman press bureau.
2. Standing drinks, treating. Australian and New Zealand.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > [noun] > drinking intoxicating liquor > call for drink or turn to pay
shout1854
shouting1862
1862 E. Hodder Mem. N.Z. Life 123 Among this class, going to these [public houses] and ‘shouting’..is considered the acmé of pleasure.
1874 A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences viii. 99 One of the greatest social evils in the gold-fields is the system of ‘shouting’.
1883 Longman's Mag. June 180 Shouting, a colonial expression for standing treat to strangers, is a common form of hospitality.
1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby iv. 106 Of course, men still go ‘on the bust’, cheques are planked down, and ‘shouting’—the Australian equivalent for ‘treating’—indulged in till all the money is finished.
1963 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 10 July 13/5 Costs incurred by licensing trusts in dispensing free liquor or ‘shouting’ ostensibly for the purpose of encouraging patronage are under fire.
3. The performing of a shout (shout n.2 1d); a declamatory style of singing among black Americans. Also attributive, as shouting meeting, shouting time.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > African-American dancing > [noun] > religious dancing
shouting1839
shout1862
ring-shout1926
society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > singing of black people
shouting1839
1839 Knickerbocker Mag. 14 213 He was sternly opposed to what are called ‘shouting meetings’.
1845 A. Wiley in Indiana Mag. Hist. 23 22 He says, they had shouting times, but he could not form a class.
1871 in Rep. 42nd U.S. Congress 2 Sess. Joint Sel. Comm. Condition of Affairs Late Insurrectionary States: Georgia (1872) I. 306 I have attended what they call their religious meetings; and they have what they call ‘shouting’.
1927 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Apr. 4/1 The type of song used in shouting is peculiar and has had much to do with molding and changing spirituals.
1946 R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) v. 109 The rhythmic style of singing which we shall call shouting, a style clearly derived from, or related to, the declamatory sermons of the rural preacher.
Compounds
shouting distance n. = hailing-distance at hailing n. Compounds; chiefly in to be within shouting distance (of) (also figurative).
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the world > space > distance > [noun] > limit of distance or reach > of specific sound
whisper-shot1863
shouting distance1930
1930 E. H. Young Miss Mole iii. 29 She must be within shouting distance of the rich old gentleman who was going to leave her a fortune.
1958 L. A. G. Strong Light above Lake 11 This is not to say that..O'Hara was an angel, or within shouting distance of one.
1961 Guardian 20 Jan. 22/7 Different ways of making..thermo-nuclear weapons cheaply are already within shouting distance.
1977 R. Gadney Champagne Marxist xiii. 83 I'll station two men outside... One will be within shouting distance.
shouting match n. a loud altercation.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > noisy or angry quarrel > instance of
ganglinga1387
altercation1410
brawla1500
heat1549
wranglea1555
brabble1566
paroxysm1578
wrangling1580
brangle1600
branglement1617
rixation1623
row1746
skimmington1753
mêlée1765
breeze1785
squeal1788
hash1789
rook1808
blow-up1809
blowout1825
scena1826
reerie1832
catfight1854
barney1855
wigs on the green1856
bull and cow1859
scrap1890
slanging match1896
snap1897
up-and-downer1927
brannigan1941
rhubarb1941
bitch fight1949
punch-up1958
shout-up1965
shouting match1970
1970 M. Braithwaite Never sleep Three in Bed vi. 68 We would begin a full-scale debate on which way we should have turned. Soon it would develop into a shouting match.
1981 V. Glendinning Edith Sitwell xv. 189 Edith was able to field, in this shouting match, one impressive new ally—John Sparrow.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
shoutingadj.
/ˈʃaʊtɪŋ/ 1. That shouts.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adjective] > shouting
belching1581
shouting1601
bawling1603
vociferant1609
vociferous?1611
vociferatinga1625
obstropolous1748
slogan-shouting1940
1601 W. Cornwallis Ess. II. xxx. sig. R5 Patrone of the vulgar, whose..showting allowance, hath such an operation with mans frailtie.
1716 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad II. v. 628 And now the God..Produc'd Æneas to the shouting Train.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 576 The hedges were lined with shouting spectators.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 207 Where..the shouting seas drive by.
2. U.S. Denoting religious sects whose congregations express themselves by shouting, esp. in shouting Methodist.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Methodism > [adjective]
Methodistical1746
swaddling1747
methodist1751
Methodistic1788
Methody1794
methodizing1820
connexional1838
shouting1851
1851 J. B. Lamar in J. B. Lamar et al. Polly Peablossom's Wedding & Other Tales 87 Forgeron was from that time ‘a shouting Methodist’.
1876 J. Burroughs Winter Sunshine i. 23 About the only genuine shouting Methodists that remain are to be found in the coloured churches.
1941 W. C. Handy Father of Blues xi. 158 My mother was a ‘shouting Methodist’.
1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene iii. 45 ‘Shouting’ sects..have made the most powerful single religio-musical contribution to jazz.
Derivatives
ˈshoutingly adv. vociferously; also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [adverb]
hautainlyc1475
vociferously1637
shoutingly1827
the world > matter > colour > quality of colour > [adverb] > garish
shoutingly1827
jazzily1917
1827 E. A. Poe Tamerlane 220 The dwindled hills, whence..Gush'd shoutingly a thousand rills.
1866 Athenæum 3 Nov. 562/3 He seems to lift his voice shoutingly.
1894 ‘M. Twain’ Those Extraordinary Twins ii, in Pudd'nhead Wilson (new ed.) 335 The new lodger, rather shoutingly dressed.
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