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▪ I. † ˈshouter1 Obs. rare.
[f. shout n.1 + -er1.]
The master of a ‘shout’ or flat boat.
c1325in Grose Antiq. Repert. (1808) II. 407 Pour les Gages de ses vij Shouters.
▪ II. shouter2|ˈʃaʊtə(r)|
[f. shout v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who shouts or cries out loudly; one who acclaims or applauds.
1692Dryden Cleomenes i. i, A peal of loud applause rang out, And thin'ed the Air, till even the Birds fell down Upon the Shouters Heads. 1820F. Burney Let. 15 Aug., The heroine passed..surrounded with shouters and vociferous admirers. 1908Academy 13 June 878/1 The English labourers in the Papal vineyard..are silent, prayerful persons rather than shouters or sensation-mongers.
†b. One who loudly supports a particular candidate. Cf. shout v. 1 i. U.S. Obs.
1875Weekly New Mexican 13 Oct. 2/1 The Carleton and Perea ‘shouters’, got up a procession with banners, transparencies and noise. 1904Rochester (N.Y.) Post-Express 26 May 4 The canvass..was very thorough, Hearst shouters being busily engaged in every city.
2. a. A name applied to some Methodist congregations in the north of Ireland who used to leap and shout in their ecstasies. (Cf. Hampson Mem. Wesley, 1791, II. 75.)
1820Polwhele Lavington's Enthus. Methodists Introd. p. cxii, Of a similar description with the Welsh Jumpers were the Irish Shouters.
b. In the West Indies, a member of a Baptist sect influenced by African religious practices.
1950Caribbean Q. II. ii. 17 The Shouters and Shakers..may practise a pseudo Christianity strongly influenced by African cult practices. 1956M. Stearns Story of Jazz (1957) iii. 30 The northern religion did not make much headway except with a small group of converts to the Baptist faith in Toco, a village in the northeastern part of the island. They are called Shouters with some accuracy, for they generated enough excitement and noise to be officially banned. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia III. 906/1 Charismatic leaders frequently organize distinctive local variants of Christianity, such as the Baptist sects graphically termed ‘Shouters’ or ‘Jumpers’.
3. Austral. and N.Z. One who stands drinks.
1863Lyttelton (N.Z.) Times 31 Dec. 4/1 Perhaps some of our readers do not know the extent to which the practice of ‘shouting’, or of inviting to drink at the ‘shouter's’ expense, is carried even here. 1885Sladen In Cornwall, etc. 156 (title) The sigh of the shouter.
4. One who participates in a shout (shout n.2 1 d); a gospel-singer; a type of blues-singer. U.S.
1867Nation 30 May 433/1 A band, composed of the best singers and of tired shouters stand at the side of the room to ‘base’ the others. 1931R. W. Gordon in A. T. Smythe et al. Carolina Low-Country 199 The shouters form a circle and proceed around and around in a sort of slow processional. 1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets xiii. 311 In barrel-house vein are his records..with vocals by Joe Turner, then an unspoiled shouter. 1976A. Murray Stomping Blues ix. 169 Joe Turner..has long been considered the Big Daddy of traditional blues shouters. |