different between yell vs stutter

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

Etymology

From Middle English stutten, stoten (“stutter”); cognate with Dutch stotteren (“stutter”).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?st???/
• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Verb

stutter (third-person singular simple present stutters, present participle stuttering, simple past and past participle stuttered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To speak with a spasmodic repetition of vocal sounds.

   He stuttered a few words of thanks.

2. (intransitive) To exhaust a gas with difficulty

   The engine of the old car stuttered going up the slope. I was stuttering after the marathon.

Synonyms

• (speak with spasmodic repetition): stammer

Translations

Noun

stutter (plural stutters)

1. A speech disorder characterised by stuttering.

   Synonym: stammer

2. (obsolete) One who stutters.

   Synonyms: stutterer, stammerer

   • 1626, Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum, London: William Lee, IV. Century, p. 103,^[1]

     And many Stutters (we finde) are very Cholericke Men; Choler Enducing a Drinesse in the Tongue.

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Truetts, tutters