different between toller vs holler

English

Etymology 1

toll +? -er, from the verb.

Noun

toller (plural tollers)

1. A person who tolls a bell; a bell ringer

Etymology 2

From Middle English toller, from Old English tollere; equivalent to toll +? -er, from the noun.

Noun

toller (plural tollers)

1. A person who collects tolls; a toll keeper

Etymology 3

Noun

toller (plural tollers)

1. (dogs) Short for Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever.

Translations

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Portuguese toller, from Latin tollere, present active infinitive of toll?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to??e?/

Verb

toller (first-person singular present tollo, first-person singular preterite tollín, past participle tollido)

1. (dated) to remove; to take away; to deprive

   Synonym: quitar

2. (dated) to hinder; to impede
3. to cripple, to maim

   Synonym: eivar

4. to spoil

   Synonym: estragar

Conjugation

Derived terms

• tolleito
• tollemerendas
• tolleción
• tollido

References

• “toller” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “toll” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “toller” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “toller” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “toller” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

German

Pronunciation

Adjective

toller

1. inflection of toll:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Middle English

Alternative forms

• tollere, tollare, tollir, tolre, toler

Etymology

From Old English tollere; equivalent to toll (“toll”) +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?t?l?r(?)/, /?t?l?r(?)/

Noun

toller (plural tolleres)

1. A tollkeeper; one who collects tolls, levies or payments.

Descendants

• English: toller

References

• “toller(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-03.

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

toller m

1. indefinite plural of toll

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin tollere, present active infinitive of toll?. Doublet of tullir.

Verb

toller (first-person singular present tollo, first-person singular preterite tollí, past participle tollido)

1. (obsolete) to remove

   Synonym: quitar

Conjugation

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?.l??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?h?.l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?(?)
• Homophone: hauler (in accents with the cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

American variant of holla, hallo or hollo.

Noun

holler (plural hollers)

1. A yell, shout.

   I heard a holler from over the fence.

2. By extension, any communication to get somebody's attention.

   If you need anything, just give me a holler.

Synonyms

• hollering
• cry, outcry
• howl
• hurl
• scream
• shout

Translations

Verb

holler (third-person singular simple present hollers, present participle hollering, simple past and past participle hollered)

1. (intransitive) To yell or shout.

   You can holler at your computer as much as you want, but it won't help anything.

2. (transitive) To call out one or more words
3. To complain, gripe

Synonyms

• shout
• See also Thesaurus:shout
• See also Thesaurus:complain

Translations

Etymology 2

Variation of hollow.

Noun

holler (plural hollers)

1. (Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow (small valley between mountains).

Adjective

holler (not comparable)

1. (dialectal, especially Southern US, Appalachia) Alternative form of hollow.

   the holler tree

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

holler c (plural hollers, diminutive hollertje n)

1. A (hurried) runner

Synonyms

• loper m
• renner m

Adjective

holler

1. Comparative form of hol