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How to pronounce catcall in English?

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Type Words
Type of call, cry, outcry, shout, vociferation, yell
Type Words
Type of deride

Examples of catcall

catcall
They thought it sounded like a catcall women would get from construction workers.
From the businessweek.com
She can deflect whistles and comments with humor and even respond with a catcall of her own.
From the nytimes.com
One group stood above the Redskins tunnel where they could hoot, boo and catcall the players off the field.
From the washingtonpost.com
Scotland's politicians and media far prefer to obsess and catcall over the independence referendum.
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
It started when spectators would catcall contestants riding past in open-topped cars, asking them to show their shoes.
From the delawareonline.com
You can't dignify the catcall by calling it barracking, because that implies a degree of wit that was obviously lacking.
From the guardian.co.uk
If people catcall at her, I will not question her for being somewhere where there is a probability of that happening.
From the world.time.com
There was only one brief catcall.
From the newsobserver.com
The point went to Stosur and the crowd began to catcall as Williams, clad in a tomato-red tennis dress approached the umpire.
From the keepingscore.blogs.time.com
More examples
  • A cry expressing disapproval
  • Utter catcalls at
  • Wolf-whistling or finger whistling is a type of whistling in which fingers are inserted in the mouth to produce a louder and more penetrating tone.
  • Catcall is a children's novel by Linda Newbery, published in 2006. It won the Nestlu00E9 Children's Book Prize Silver Award.
  • A shout or whistle expressing dislike, especially from a crowd or audience; a jeer, a boo; To make such an exclamation
  • A piercing condemning cry or whistle.