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Definition of Catcalled
1. catcall [v] - See also: catcall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Catcalled
Literary usage of Catcalled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"Then they began hissing; they catcalled him. Séné- cal called the persons who
were interrupting to order. The orator went on like a machine. ..."
2. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1909)
"A child two years old, and well acquainted with a catcalled Tiger, said " Tige "
when he touched a fur coat, a woolly caterpillar, a downy feather, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1821)
"Some groaned, some applauded, some hissed, some catcalled, and some roared " go
on." Mr J—ff—y, who took his part, had like to have got to logger- ..."
4. An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant by Marcus Eli Ravage (1917)
"They threw chalk at him and at one another as soon as he turned his back to write
on the blackboard, and catcalled him, and one fat youngster even went to ..."
5. Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1883)
"But she had too much sense not to know that it was better to be hissed and
catcalled by her Daddy, than by a whole sea of heads in the pit of Drury Lane ..."
6. Critical and Historical Essays Contributed to the Edinburgh Review by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1866)
"But she had too much sense not to know that it was better to be hissed and
catcalled by her Daddy, than by a whole sea of heads in the pit of Drury Lane ..."
7. More that Must be Told by Philip Gibbs (1921)
"Fifty young Irishmen shouted orations at me from the galleries. Two hundred or
more hooted and yelled. In the top gallery a gang of girls catcalled in ..."
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