catcalling
catcalling is the present participle and gerund of catcall.
Meaning of catcall
Verb
catcall (third-person singular simple present catcalls, present participle catcalling, simple past and past participle catcalled)
- To make such an exclamation.
- When Susan Seligson thinks about breasts — and, since she’s a DDD-endowed (touché) middle-aged woman who’s been groped and catcalled her whole life, that’s often, too — she thinks about ... her own DDDs.2007 January 4, Ada Calhoun, “Up Front”, in New York Times
Noun
catcalling (countable and uncountable, plural catcallings)
- The act of giving a catcall.
- In the Room for Debate forum Stopping Street Harassment, the editors ask four people to weigh in on the question, Should current laws dealing with harassment be strengthened to include catcalling, or will that go too far in controlling speech and behavior? (A catcall in this context is defined as...2014 November 12, Kathering Schulten, “What Have Been Your Experiences With Catcalling or Other Kinds of Street Harassment?”, in The New York Times
Forms of catcalling
| plural | catcallings |
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Questions about catcalling
- What does catcalling mean?
- Catcalling means the act of giving a catcall.
- What is catcalling the present participle and gerund of?
- Catcalling is the present participle and gerund of catcall.
- What part of speech is catcalling?
- Catcalling is a noun.
- What is the plural of catcalling?
- The plural of catcalling is catcallings.
Words near catcalling in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: catcalling (page history and authors); catcall (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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