Other forms: hollers, hollering, hollered
To holler is to shout — loud, unpolished, at somebody too far off to hear you any other way. A father hollering up the stairs that dinner is on the table, a farmer hollering across a field at a dog.
It is American and informal, warmer and rougher than shout, and you would not put it in a report. It is a noun as well: a holler from the back of the crowd. Give me a holler means get in touch, with no shouting involved at all, and holler at me is the newer version of the same thing. In the Appalachians a holler is also a narrow valley between hills, spelled the way people there say hollow, and that is a different word entirely.
Holler is the American reshaping of holla, hallo and hollo — the same family of shouts that produced hello. It came up through the voice rather than through books, and the spelling followed the sound.
American variant of holla, hallo or hollo.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in A Man Called Ove, Sounds & Noises
First appears in chapter 33 of A Man Called Ove.
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