Middle English Dictionary Entry
yelling(e ger.
Entry Info
| Forms | yelling(e ger. Also (early SWM) ȝulinge & (?error) ȝollynde. |
| Etymology | From yellen v. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
Note: Cp. gouling(e ger., youling ger.
1.
(a) Crying out, shouting; loud wailing; also, noisy outcry, clamor; a clamor;
(b) a discordant combination of sounds, dissonance, cacophony;
(c) the screaming of a bird; the howling of a dog;
(d) the sound (of a trumpet).
Associated quotations
a
- c1300 SLeg.Brendan (Hrl 2277:Wright)p.23 : Tho the monekes were so fur that hi ne miȝte i-seo nomore, Here ȝullinge [Ld: ȝeollinge; Corp-C: ȝollynde] ȝut hi hurde; the schrewen wepe sore.
- a1325 SLeg.Patr.(Corp-C 145)491 : Grislich hy gonne ȝolle and crie & wepe sore Þat of ȝollinge þat hy made him þoȝte grettore fere Þan of al þe pine þat he hadde er.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Ex.32.17 : Iosue forsoþ heryng þe noyse of þe puple criyng oute sayde to Moyses, ‘ȝolling of feyȝtyng is herd in þe tentis.’
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Judg.21.2 : In þe siȝte of hym sittynge vn to euyn þei reredyn a voice & with grett ȝellynge begunnyn to weepyn.
- (a1382) WBible(1) (Bod 959)Esth.4.3 : Gret weiling was anentis þe Jewis, fastinge & ȝelling & weping.
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)7.43 : He meved so his wode moder with wepinge and wiþ ȝellynge [vr. ȝollyng] þat sche beet hym almost to þe deth wiþ tapers.
- (1395) Wycl.37 Concl.(Tit D.1)112 : Hou abhominable is the feynid preiere othir hidous yellinge of siche prelatis othir religious in the conuenticlis of glotons, or in the housis of idolatrie ful of auarice.
- c1400(?c1380) Cleanness (Nero A.10)971 : When þay wern war of þe wrake…Such a ȝomerly ȝarm of ȝellyng þer rysed; Þerof clatered þe cloudes þat Kryst myȝt haf rawþe.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)537 : Ȝellynge, or hydows cryynge: Vociferacio.
- a1450(1408) Vegetius(1) (Dc 291)167/13 : Þei…setteþ on…with noyse of trumpes…wiþ schowtyng & howtyng, ȝellynge & crienge of men, & al to make hem affrayed.
- c1483(?a1450) OT in Caxton Gold.Leg.(Caxton)f.81va : Whan they had made thys pyetous cryeng & yollyng [L (Vulg.Judith 7.18): ululatus] they wente all to theyr chyrche & ther a longe whyle prayden.
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)240/10 : Þes fendes madyn a ȝellyng and a cryyng, þat any myght be agast forto here hit.
b
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1386/34 : Alle melodye nedeþ many voice or sownes…And if many discordeþ, þe voice pleseþ nouȝt, For of suche discorde comeþ nouȝt songe, but howlynge ouþer ȝollynge.
c
- c1275(?c1250) Owl & N.(Clg A.9)1643 : Þu ȝeilpest þat þu art manne loþ…An mid ȝulinge [Jes-O: yollinge] & mid igrede Þu wanstwel [read: þanstwel] þat þu art unlede.
- (a1398) Trev.Barth.(Add 27944:Seymour)1165/31 : So Ticius Sabinus his hound forsook him nouȝt nouþer in prisoun nouþer in deþ but abood wiþ þe dede body wiþ doelful and sorweful noyse and ȝollynge.
d
- a1425(a1382) WBible(1) (Corp-O 4)Num.10.6 : In the secounde forsothe sownynge and euen ȝollynge [WB(2): lijk noise] of the trompe shulden rere the tentys that dwellen at the sowth.