Crossword clues for holler
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, American English, variant of hollo (1540s) "to shout," especially "to call to the hounds in hunting," related to hello. Compare colloquial yeller for yellow, etc. As a style of singing (originally Southern U.S.), first recorded 1936. Related: Hollered; hollering. As a noun, from 1896, earlier hollar (1825).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A yell, shout. 2 By extension, any communication to get somebody's attention. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To yell or shout. 2 (context transitive English) To call out one or more words 3 To complain, gripe Etymology 2
(context dialectal especially Southern US Appalachia English) (alternative form of hollow English). n. (context Southern US Appalachia English) (alternative form of hollow lang=en nodot=1) (qualifier: small valley between mountains).
WordNet
v. shout out; "He hollered out to surrender our weapons" [syn: holler out]
utter a sudden loud cry; "she cried with pain when the doctor inserted the needle"; "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me" [syn: shout, shout out, cry, call, yell, scream, hollo, squall]
complain; "What was he hollering about?" [syn: gripe, grouse, crab, beef, squawk, bellyache]
Wikipedia
"Holler" is a song by British pop girl-group the Spice Girls, released as one of the two songs picked as the lead single from their third studio album, Forever (2000). The song was written by the Spice Girls, Rodney Jerkins, LaShawn Daniels, and Fred Jerkins III, with Jerkins also producing it. The single was released as a double A-side single along with " Let Love Lead the Way" internationally, on 23 October 2000, except within the United States and Canada.
"Holler" is considered a more mature song, with R&B influences, and with lyrics talking about sexual pleasure. Critics gave "Holler" favorable reviews; though some thought it was too different from their previous sounds. However, most praised its funky groove and called it "a pleasant surprise", picking it as one of the best tracks on the album. The single was a number-one hit in the United Kingdom, while it also reached top-ten positions in more than 10 countries.
Holler may refer to:
- Holler (surname)
- "Holler" (Spice Girls song), a 2000 song by British pop girl-group the Spice Girls
- "Holler" (Ginuwine song), a 1997 song by R&B singer Ginuwine
- Holler (EP), an album released in 2014 by South Korean girl group Girls' Generation-TTS
- "Holler" (Girls' Generation-TTS song), 2014
- Holler, Germany
- Field holler, a song form
- Goofy holler, a stock sound effect that is used frequently in Disney cartoons and films
- Hollow, a small valley, as commonly pronounced in Appalachia
- Holler (film), a Dana Adam Shaprio film about segregated proms in the South
- Holler, Luxembourg, a village in the commune of Weiswampach, in northern Luxembourg
Höller is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Carsten Höller (born 1961), German artist
- Karl Höller (1907–1987), German composer
- Stephan A. Hoeller (born 1931), Hungarian writer, scholar and religious leader
- Thomas Höller (born 1976), Austrian footballer
- Vanessa Holler, American beauty pageant winner
- York Höller (born 1944), German composer
Holler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Kjell Holler (1925–2000), Norwegian politician
- Liesel Holler, Miss Peru 2004
- Monica Holler (born 1984), Swedish professional cyclist
Holler is the second EP by the South Korean girl group, Girls' Generation-TTS. It was released digitally on September 16, 2014, and physically on September 18, 2014, by S. M. Entertainment.
Usage examples of "holler".
There was no hollering or shouting as there was before in the last compromise, just the sound of chuntering and a solitary bell.
That was when Alvin became vaguely aware of the voices of Mike and Abe and Coz, somewhere in the distance, whooping and hollering like little boys.
Beany he said he dident and he saw me with the pepersass bottel in my hand and Mister Hirvey he said now you have got to eat that creemcake or take a good licking and he took his cane, and held Beany by the coller and said 1 and Beany dident eat it, and then he said 2 and Beany dident eat it and then he said 3 and he hit Beany a auful whack over the legs and Beany hollered like time and held on to his legs, and then Mister Hirvey he said 1 again and Beany dident eat it and he said 2 and Beany dident eat it and jest as he said 3 Beany he grabed it and took a bite and tride to swaller it and i thought i shood die to see him, he spit and clawed at his mouth and he howled and jumped up and down and then he ran over to Charles Toles pump and rensed his mouth and drank out of the horse troth and Mister Hirvey and the man like to dide laffing.
God for all de big black men dat can holler for Governor Hampton as loud as dis one does.
A little of the tension in the room had eased and there was a more normal buzz of conversation, albeit punctuated by the occasional hollers and bellows from Eggy and Eight-Man.
Den he flop down fudder, ole Brer Buzzard did, twel he lit on de top er de holler tree.
The tiny shapes of young kids were racing around it, playing tag and hopscotch, no doubt screeching and hollering their way through midmorning recess.
Charles Fifield and Charly Batcheldor and Chick Randall and Jimmy Josie jest putting it for the ingine house, and Beany said buly they is a fire, and we begun to ring the bell as hard as we cood and holler fire.
Riding tiny air-scooters that look like dragonflies mated with ceiling fans, the pirates swarm aboard the passenger ship, led by Dola, the mother of all pirates, braids akimbo, hollering at the top of her considerable lungs, and looking like a cross between a Katzenjammer mama and Pippi Longstocking aged by R.
Gimpy hollers at me all the time when I do something rong, but he reely likes me because hes my frend.
She seemed to be moving slower than the cow even while the cow was stopped with Ringo leaned to the taut jerk of the rope and hollering at the cow, so it was dark sure enough when we reached the new pen.
Only three cats had been seduced from the track by hooligans who hooted like owls to scare the cats into skidding off the track, or hollered like fishmongers, waving overripe fish or raw chicken legs.
I was doing this, the feller inside hollered and jumped out the winder, and Glanton grabbed him by the neck and taken his gun away from him.
So I slammed a bullet back through the barrel and the feller hollered and fell out in the open yelling blue murder.
The bartender give a holler and fell backwards into a tub of water and empty beer bottles, and started yelling for help, and I seen a man come to one of the doors which opened into the bar, and look at me.