gnar

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  1. intransitive verb To snarl; growl.

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  1. Imitative.

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  1. Also gnarr, knar, gnar; not found in Middle English or Anglo-Saxon (the alleged Anglo-Saxon *gnyrran or *gnyrian is dubious); = Dutch knorren, snarl, grumble, German gnarren, Low German knurren, knorren, gnurren = German knurren, snarl, growl, = Danish knurre, snarl, growl, = Swedish knorra, murmur, growl; cf. German knarren, and knirrcn, creak; apparently ult. imitative, and variable in form.
 

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