holler

holler
holler (v.) 1690s, Amer.Eng., variant of hollo (1540s) "to shout," especially "to call to the hounds in hunting," related to HELLO (Cf. hello). Cf. 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).

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