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.
雙語例句
1. Temporarily full - court in an uproar, the catcall below the stage.
一時全場嘩然, 臺下噓聲一片.
來自互聯網
2. Take a press photographer in the company large activity and catcall.