CATCALLS Synonyms

• a comb for separating flax fibers

• comb with a heckle

• challenge aggressively

• a fricative sound (especially as an expression of disapproval)

• a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

• make a sharp hissing sound, as if to show disapproval

• move with a whooshing sound

• express or utter with a hiss

• show displeasure, as after a performance or speech

• a loud raucous cry (as of an owl)

• a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

• something of little value

• to utter a loud clamorous shout

• utter the characteristic sound of owls

• showing your contempt by derision

• laugh at with contempt and derision

• aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing

• harass with persistent criticism or carping

• the sound made by something moving rapidly or by steam coming out of a small aperture

• the act of signalling (e.g., summoning) by whistling or blowing a whistle

• a small wind instrument that produces a whistling sound by blowing into it

• acoustic device that forces air or steam against an edge or into a cavity and so produces a loud shrill sound

• an inexpensive fipple flute

• make whistling sounds

• move with, or as with, a whistling sound

• utter or express by whistling

• move, send, or bring as if by whistling

• make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound

• give a signal by whistling