hollers
Cries out vocally
Hollers is the plural of holler, a loud shout or call: I could hear hollers coming from the backyard.
In Appalachian dialect, hollers are also small valleys between hills—a variant pronunciation of hollows: families living in the hollers of eastern Kentucky.
The verb holler means to yell: She hollers at the kids to come inside.
Loud vocal outbursts
- screamsLoud, piercing cries
- shoutsLoud vocal outbursts
- bellowsHandheld device forcing air
- callsContacts by telephone
cries · roars · whoops · catcalls · yelps · exclaims · vocalizes · bellowing
Empty within
- valleyLow ground between heights
- creekNarrow natural watercourse
- coveSheltered coastal indentation
- mountainTall natural landmass
ridge · cabin · homestead · backwoods · rural · hillside · settlement · kinfolk
Alternating vocal pattern
- bluesMournful American music genre
- spiritualsEnslaved people's sacred songs
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- cottonPlant fiber for textiles
levee · chain gang · labor songs · chants · rhythm · toil · delta · prison songs
yells
Loud vocal outbursts
calls · cries · roars · whoops · catcalls · yelps · exclaims · vocalizes · bellowing · howls
hollow
Empty within
mountain · ridge · cabin · homestead · backwoods · rural · hillside · settlement · kinfolk · moonshine
call and response
Alternating vocal pattern
- bluesMournful American music genre
- spiritualsEnslaved people's sacred songs
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
cotton · levee · chain gang · labor songs · chants · rhythm · toil · delta · prison songs · railroad
- celebrationsgraduation, festival, party, wedding, fireworks
- outcriescries, screams, shouts, yells, howls
- rural SouthBaptist church, dirt roads, gravel roads, backroads, country roads
- AppalachiaAppalachian culture, Blue Ridge, Appalachian Trail, Cumberland, Great Smoky Mountains
- Appalachian folklorefolk traditions, folklore traditions, mountain ballads, ghost stories, tall tales
- AppalachiansAppalachians, Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smoky Mountains, Blue Ridge
- holler back
- holler atSpeak loudly toward
- hoot and holler
- hollering atYelling toward someone
- hollered atLoudly reprimanded someone
- a hoot and a hollerBrief informal distance