Etymologies
- growl + -y (Wiktionary)
Examples
“WERTHEIMER: I love the way that you pick up on the kind of growly quality in Mike's voice when you play the guitar way down low.”
“Perhaps it is high pitched and squeaky; or, on the other hand, a "growly" bass suggestive of ill-nature.”
“His vocals are still death metal, though not as "growly" I would say.”
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“Here, his mother’s first act was to take a clean little nightshirt from a drawer, sit him up, slip off the wet one and pop the dry over his head, he opening his eyes for a second, unseeingly, making a kind of growly noise in his throat, and dropping back fast asleep, before she had finished with the buttons.”
“With tiny whines and thin whimperings, with whiffs and whuffs and growly sorts of noises down in his throat, he would try to tell her somewhat of his tale.”
“Enter the burglars, led by the scary, skeevy Ben Mendelsohn Animal Kingdom, a group that also includes the growly Dash Mihok and the jittery Cam Gigandet.”
“The growly riff that Mr. Wilson created was so catchy that trumpeter Ray Wetzel of Stan Kenton's band lifted it in 1945 for his own "Intermission Riff," which became a signature hit for Kenton.”
“But the voice that emerges is unmistakably the dark lord's: growly and profane and black with comedy.”
The Washington Post: Keith Richards's 'Life': An unexpectedly clear look at years as a Rolling Stone
“Come Around Sundown," the band's fifth album, is thick with growly, momentous rock songs that arrive in an era dominated by magnificent pop stars (Lady Gaga), magniloquent rap stars (Lil Wayne) and mash-ups of the two (Kanye West).”
The Washington Post: Kings of Leon bemoan their rock stardom on latest album, 'Come Around Sundown'
“The old guy gave them a crappy dime, and then poured a spoonful of Kool-Aid in his palm for the growly dog to lap up.”
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