different between yell vs huzzah

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?ellen, yellen, from Old English ?iellan, from Proto-Germanic *gellan?. Cognate with Saterland Frisian gälje (“to yell”), Dutch gillen (“to yell”), German Low German gellen (“to yell”), German gellen (“to yell”).

Verb

yell (third-person singular simple present yells, present participle yelling, simple past and past participle yelled)

1. (intransitive) shout; holler; make a loud sound with the voice.
2. (transitive) to convey by shouting

   He yelled directions to the party from the car.

3. (slang) to tell someone off (in a loud and angry manner)

   If I come home late again, my dad is gonna yell at me.

Usage notes

To yell at someone is as in a hostile manner, while to yell to someone means to speak loudly so as to be heard.

Synonyms

• (shout): call, cry, holler, shout
• See also Thesaurus:shout

Derived terms

Related terms

• gale
• yelp

Translations

Noun

yell (plural yells)

1. A shout.
2. A phrase to be shouted.
   • 1912, The Michigan Alumnus (volume 18, page 152)

     After the dinner a general reception was held in the spacious parlors of the hotel during which the occasion was very much enlivened with the old college songs and old college yells, which transported us all in mind and feelings […]

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots yeld (“ceasing to give milk”).

Adjective

yell (not comparable)

1. (Ulster) dry (of cow)

Anagrams

• Lyle

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English yell.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?j?l/
• Hyphenation: yell
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

yell m (plural yells)

1. yell, a slogan to be shouted, especially in sports or games (e.g. by players, cheerleaders or the audience)

Related terms

• gil
• gillen
• yellen

Middle English

Noun

yell

1. Alternative form of ?elle

English

Alternative forms

• huzza

Etymology

Likely originally a hoisting cry [from 1570s], possibly related to hoise. Compare possibly cognate Swedish hissa (“to hoist; huzzah”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??z??/

  Rhymes: -??

Interjection

huzzah

1. (nautical, dated) Used as a call for coordinated physical effort, as in hoisting.
2. (literary, poetic, sometimes humorous) Used as a cheer indicating exaltation, enjoyment or approval.

Synonyms

• (hoisting cry): heave, heave-ho
• (cheer indicating enjoyment or approval): hooray, hurrah, hurray, see also Thesaurus:well done.

Noun

huzzah (plural huzzahs)

1. A cheer often associated with sailors, shouted by a group in praise of a thing or event.

Verb

huzzah (third-person singular simple present huzzahs, present participle huzzahing, simple past and past participle huzzahed)

1. To cheer with a huzzah sound.
   • 1891, in Littell's living age, volume 191, page 260:

     In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]