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▪ I. shouting, vbl. n.|ˈʃaʊtɪŋ|
[f. shout v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. shout.
1. a. Loud crying, uproar, clamour; vociferous applause, acclamation; an instance of this.
c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 2095 Ne how the grekes..Tries riden al the place aboute..with a loud shoutynge. 1535Coverdale Job xxxix. 25 Y⊇ noyse, the captaynes and the shoutinge. 1828Egan Boxiana IV. 174 Cy..fell on him so heavily that the shoutings were—‘He cannot come again.’ 1848Thackeray Van. Fair xliii, Dobbin..kept up a great shouting.
†b. Applied to the song of birds. Obs.
1508Dunbar Gold. Targe 26 The skyes rang for schoutyng of the larkis.
†c. An election carried out by acclamation.
[1660Milton Free Commw. Wks. 1851 V. 438 Not committing all to the noise and shouting of a rude Multitude, but permitting only those of them who are rightly qualifi'd, to nominate as many as they will.] 1679O. Heywood Diaries (1881) II. 139 Captain Pockly fell ill at the shouting at York.
d. Phr. it is all over bar († but, occas. except) the shouting: said when the result of a contest or the outcome of an action appears certain.
1842C. J. Apperley Life Sportsman xvi. 332 It's all over but shouting..Antonio's as dead as a hammer. 1869A. L. Gordon How We beat Favourite in Poems (1912) 140 The race is all over, bar shouting. 1897Nat. Police Gaz. (U.S.) 26 May 7/4 It was all over ‘bar’ the shouting, but the youngster refused emphatically to give way. 1909A. Bennett What Public Wants iv. 54 If I wasn't sure that it's all over except the shouting, I wouldn't touch it. 1959Times 12 June 5/3 In the absence of rain or miracles it was all over bar the shouting at Romford last evening. 1976Western Morning News 25 Sept. 8/2 But if the Rhodesia affair is all over bar the shouting, can the same be said about South Africa?
†e. Loud support for a particular candidate. U.S. Obs.
1904Minneapolis Times 29 May 6 Thus far most of the enthusiastic shouting for Gorman can be traced to the Gorman press bureau.
2. Standing drinks, treating. Austral. and N.Z.
1862E. Hodder Memories N.Z. Life 123 Among this class, going to these [public houses] and ‘shouting’..is considered the acmé of pleasure. 1874A. Bathgate Colonial Experiences viii. 99 One of the greatest social evils in the gold-fields is the system of ‘shouting’. 1883Longman's Mag. June 180 Shouting, a colonial expression for standing treat to strangers, is a common form of hospitality. 1911E. M. Clowes On Wallaby iv. 106 Of course, men still go ‘on the bust’, cheques are planked down, and ‘shouting’—the Australian equivalent for ‘treating’—indulged in till all the money is finished. 1963Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) 10 July 13/5 Costs incurred by licensing trusts in dispensing free liquor or ‘shouting’ ostensibly for the purpose of encouraging patronage are under fire.
3. The performing of a shout (shout n.2 1 d); a declamatory style of singing among American Blacks.
1871in Rep. 42nd U.S. Congress 2 Sess. Joint Select Comm. Condition of Affairs Late Insurrectionary States: Georgia (1872) I. 306, I have attended what they call their religious meetings; and they have what they call ‘shouting’. 1927N.Y. Times Mag. 24 Apr. 4/1 The type of song used in shouting is peculiar and has had much to do with molding and changing spirituals. 1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets (1949) v. 109 The rhythmic style of singing which we shall call shouting, a style clearly derived from, or related to, the declamatory sermons of the rural preacher.
4. Comb., as shouting distance = hailing distance s.v. hailing vbl. n. b; chiefly in phr. to be within shouting distance (of) (also fig.); shouting match, a loud altercation.
1930E. H. Young Miss Mole iii. 29 She must be within shouting distance of the rich old gentleman who was going to leave her a fortune. 1958L. A. G. Strong Light above Lake 11 This is not to say that..O'Hara was an angel, or within shouting distance of one. 1961Guardian 20 Jan. 22/7 Different ways of making..thermo-nuclear weapons cheaply are already within shouting distance. 1977R. Gadney Champagne Marxist xiii. 83 I'll station two men outside... One will be within shouting distance.
1970M. Braithwaite Never sleep Three in Bed vi. 68 We would begin a full-scale debate on which way we should have turned. Soon it would develop into a shouting match. 1981V. Glendinning Edith Sitwell xv. 189 Edith was able to field, in this shouting match, one impressive new ally—John Sparrow.
▪ II. shouting, ppl. a.|ˈʃaʊtɪŋ|
[f. shout v. + -ing2.]
1. That shouts.
1600Sir W. Cornwallis Ess. ii. xxx. (1631) 48 Patrone of the vulgar whose..showting allowance hath such an operation with mans frailtie. 1716Pope Iliad v. 627 And now the god..Produced æneas to the shouting train. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. v. I. 576 The hedges were lined with shouting spectators. 1892Kipling Barrack-room Ballads, L'Envoi ix, Where..the shouting seas drive by.
2. U.S. Denoting religious sects whose congregations express themselves by shouting, esp. in phr. shouting Methodist.
1851T. A. Burke Polly Peablossom's Wedding 87 Forgeron was from that time ‘a shouting Methodist’. 1876J. Burroughs Winter Sunshine i. 23 About the only genuine shouting Methodists that remain are to be found in the coloured churches. 1941W. C. Handy Father of Blues (1957) xi. 158 My mother was a ‘shouting Methodist’. 1959[see religio-musical s.v. religio-].
Hence ˈshoutingly adv., vociferously. Also fig.
1827Poe Tamerlane 220 The dwindled hills, whence..Gush'd shoutingly a thousand rills. 1866Athenæum 3 Nov. 562/3 He seems to lift his voice shoutingly. 1894‘Mark Twain’ Those Extraordinary Twins ii. 335 The new lodger, rather shoutingly dressed. |