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Meanings of catcall in English

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Usage of catcall in English
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But ask yourself: If your friends catcall women, do you keep quiet?
The South African
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The catcall drifted across the breeze along with a vile stench.
Eve of darkness
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Others were picking up the catcall now, creating a steady chant of Freak!
Shades of gray
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She smiled as she heard the shrill catcall of a lad in Forsyth Street.
Different Girls
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These were cynical times, but no one risked a catcall.
Atonement
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A soft catcall carried through the ranks of the villagers.
Burning up
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If one of your friends or you catcall a woman, that is a trash action.
The South African
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Again a strange, mocking catcall sounded from somewhere.
The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat / Slumber-Town Tales
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Under their feet the men in the Sunshine Athletic Association laugh and catcall at some foolishness.
Rabbit, run
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A catcall from the other side of the city street brought dim awareness of his human audience.
Shadow fall
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The clubbers in line catcall and complain.
True Lies
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Thanks. She stood on her toes to steal a kiss, garnering a catcall from one of his coworkers.
Heart of stone
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Sadly, it seems that this crude, rising-inflection, US-style catcall has crossed the language gene-gap into print here in Ireland.
The Irish Times
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His footman privately procured him a catcall, on which he practised in a back-garret for two hours in the afternoon.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, in Sixteen Volumes. Volume 04
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She looks ridiculous, a figure of fun, and the people start to catcall and laugh, and someone throws a handful of mud.
The Lady of the Rivers
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Thence I went to the Pope's Head Alley and called on Adam Chard, and bought a catcall there, it cost me two groats.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 04: March/April 1659-1660
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