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/ʃˈaʊtɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Shout v. t.

To utter with a shout; to cry; sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.

To treat with shouts or clamor.

To treat (one) to something; also, to give (something) by way of treating. (Slang, Australia & U. S.)

Shout v. i. (past & past part. shouted; pres. part. shouting)

To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc. "Shouting of the men and women eke." "They shouted thrice: what was the last cry for?"

To entertain with refreshments or the like gratuitously; to treat. (Slang, Australia & U. S.)

To shout at, to utter shouts at; to deride or revile with shouts.

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Etymology of 'Shouting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shouting" Quotes from Famous Books

... barefooted; his long neck stretched out of the collarless garment with a mournful, stork-like expression. Squatting on the floor were three trouserless, dirt-incrusted boys; he was pointing at a chart standing before their eyes, and all together they were shouting some word that exploded away down in their throats in tremendous effort and never seemed to reach their lips. I called out and waved my hand as I went by, and when I looked back, a hundred yards farther, I saw ...

— The Spinner's Book of Fiction • Various

... cart-horse he was a hunter. However, let the horse's idea have been what it might, he whisked his tail, kicked up his heels, tossed his head, and snorted; and then went off in a regular elephant gallop down the field, with all the men shouting "Stop him—stop him," but nobody trying to do so in the least. As for Harry, he stuck his knees into the horse as well as he could, and dragged at the rein, but he might just as well have pulled at a post for all the impression he made. ...

— Hollowdell Grange - Holiday Hours in a Country Home • George Manville Fenn

... spring caravan lay encamped, or housed in town. Now, on the last days of the rendezvous, a sort of hysteria seized the multitude. The sound of rifle fire was like that of a battle—every man was sighting-in his rifle. Singing and shouting went on everywhere. Someone fresh from the Mexican War had brought a drum, another a bugle. Without instructions, these began to sound their summons and continued all day long, at such times as the performers ...

— The Covered Wagon • Emerson Hough

... whom I had seen coming down from the cliffs' top had hurried to see what all the shouting meant, and I saw that they were well-armed warriors and mostly spearsmen. Evan cried to them to come and help, and they ranged up alongside. He told them that I was a Norseman who had gone berserk, and ...

— A Prince of Cornwall - A Story of Glastonbury and the West in the Days of Ina of Wessex • Charles W. Whistler

... he explained his uneasiness. "I see I've got to tell you," said he, "for I don't want you to think me a shouting ass. The fact is my wife wants to get a divorce from me and to soak me for big alimony. She's a woman who'll do anything to gain her end, and—well, for some reason she's always been jealous of you. I didn't care to get into trouble, or to get you ...

— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips

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