catcall
n.
1650s, a type of noisemaker (Johnson describes it as a "squeaking instrument") used to express dissatisfaction in play-houses, from cat, n. + call, n.; presumably because it sounded like an angry cat. As a verb, attested from 1734.
| 词汇 | catcall |
| 词根词缀 | Online Etymology Dictionary catcall n. 1650s, a type of noisemaker (Johnson describes it as a "squeaking instrument") used to express dissatisfaction in play-houses, from cat, n. + call, n.; presumably because it sounded like an angry cat. As a verb, attested from 1734. |
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