Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The crying of cats; a howling or screeching.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of caterwaul.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats.
Examples
“Listening to all the caterwauling from the right, one would think that Immigration Reform is a new concept, rather than a decades old problem.”
“This whole line of caterwauling is getting very old and stale …”
Conservative Republican Participation - Morton_C_Blackwell’s blog - RedState
“The homophobic caterwauling is a distraction from the class war.”
Think Progress » “Dogs aren’t born mooing, and people aren’t born gay.”
“Through the warmer months you can hear the likes of every kind of caterwauling at ungodly times in the night.”
“It's a big, swooping song with huge, dramatic riffs and kind of caterwauling vocals, and it's a song about her mother's struggle with cancer.”
“Maine coon cat with lungs like a set of bagpipes, I do not use the word "caterwauling" lightly.”
“But if one of these women is sensitive enough to know she is beginning to strain in her argument and will lower her voice and persist in keeping it lowered the effect upon herself and the other woman will put the "caterwauling" out of the question.”
“If you have ever found yourself in the past aiding and abetting such an ugly sound in argument with another -- say to yourself "caterwauling,”
“A venerable and hitherto decorous old deacon of Roxbury not only left the church when the hated bass-viol began its accompanying notes, but he stood for a long time outside the church door stridently "caterwauling" at the top of his lungs.”
“If this seems absurd to those who characterize all such sound and song as "caterwauling," let me remind the reader that in all Europe there is not one man fonder of music than an average Arab, a Chinese, or a red Indian; for any of these people, as”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘caterwauling’.
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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Words describing singing voices
mellifluous, gravelly, rusty bathtub, velvet fog, howling, laconic, fluttering, quavery, hypnotic, stilted, lilting, sonorous and 47 more...
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maygra
apropos, advantageous, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, perihelion, mortmain, solitudinous, mediastinus, asumbrative, traveler and 498 more...
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wunderkammer's Words
smarmy, bubkes, elucidate, togs, aeolian, carp, kibosh, bosky, ramshackle, mange, harpy, effervesce and 163 more...
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Nabokov vocabulary
verisimilitude, geminate, pedantic, intervestibular, equilibrist, nictitating, anastomosis, quiddity, torus, cacahuete, undulation, pensum and 135 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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Oh them words, them words
My fancies, my cudgels.
liquescent, ferly, lamia, basilisk, trigon, fantast, stirp, tristesse, enfleurage, stemma, formicary, lacrimation and 346 more...
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Favorite Words
crunk, ostentatious, shellac, smoot, thrice, somnambulant, nefarious, nostalgic, shenanigans, hooligans, oracle, torr and 142 more...
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Good Words
Various words noted while reading over the past 15 years.
gravitas, telos, effulgent, apophatic, démarche, viscera, pallid, mien, expiation, portmanteau, satiety, nadir and 58 more...
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C. Montgomery Burns
slugabed, layabout, poppycock, goldbrickers, troglodyte, blue blazes, bawdy, shenanigans, orang-utan, blast, excellent, dame fortune and 78 more...
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fitzgeraldean
snobbishly, riotous, impressionability, gestures, hope, gorgeous, dreams, elations, lawns, egg, mansion, supercilious and 60 more...
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brian's Words
hijinks, akimbo, plethora, accoutrements, redivider, informatician, raccoonnookkeeper, jowl, qaanaaq, sawdust, maniacal, copious and 34 more...
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Some Words
jabot, knell, volant, crasis, confute, toxophilite, bursar, glyptic, indifferentism, spang, carrel, liberticide and 65 more...
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logophilia
caterwauling, brustling, pugnozzle, gruntle, gift horse, moonling, vampirarchy, salmagundi, powder-monkey, argh, scuppers, macellarious and 10 more...
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Prolagus
(Mr. Richard, by Belle and Sebastian) Nov 8, 2010
minethlos "Men and Women desirous of Copulation, a Term borrowed from Cats." Jun 30, 2008