indoor voice

indoor voice

English

Alternative forms

• indoors voice, inside voice

Noun

indoor voice (plural indoor voices)

1. A calm, quiet voice, used to avoid disturbing others.
   • 2011, Lisa Unger, Darkness, My Old Friend, Broadway (2011), →ISBN, page 57:

     The toddler at the far table issued a little shriek of delight over something. "Indoor voice," his mother whispered.

   • 2014, Bobbi Govanus, How To Pilot When We Were Raised to BE Stewardesses: Reinventing Your Life with Passion and Purpose, Lulu.com (2014), →ISBN, page 18:

     She knew when I was on a business call that she had to be quiet and use her indoor voice.

   • 2014, Kate Racculia, Bellweather Rhapsody, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (2014), →ISBN, page 242:

     She's easy to be with, provided you don't mind the constant chatter, the non-sequitur song cues, or her total lack of an indoor voice.

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see Citations:indoor voice.

Antonyms

• outdoor voice