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yell at a cloud

yell at a cloud is the alternative form of yell at clouds.

Meaning of yell at clouds

Verb

yell at clouds (third-person singular simple present yells at clouds, present participle yelling at clouds, simple past and past participle yelled at clouds)

  1. (derogatory, humorous, intransitive) To express a trivial, out-of-touch, or idiosyncratic grievance.
    • The Edmonton Oilers will once again be prominent at an entry draft, the 2018 edition three full years past the Connor McDavid draft lottery win. It’s perfectly reasonable for you to pitch a fit, kick over a pink flamingo and yell at clouds, but after that there’s some pretty big business to be...2018 January 9, Allan Mitchell, “Gauging the Edmonton Oilers' needs and tendencies for the 2018 NHL draft”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

Forms of yell at a cloud

third-person singular presentyells at a cloud
present participleyelling at a cloud
past participleyelled at a cloud
pastyelled at a cloud

Questions about yell at a cloud

What is yell at a cloud the alternative form of?
Yell at a cloud is the alternative form of yell at clouds.

Words near yell at a cloud in the dictionary

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  3. yelkouan shearwaters
  4. yelks
  5. yell
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  11. Yell County

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yell at a cloud (page history and authors); yell at clouds (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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