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- noun A
guttural pronunciation of the letter r; awharl .
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a native of Carlton, in Leicestershire, [35] where the people (through some occult cause) are troubled with a wharling in their throats, so that they cannot plainly pronounce the letter R.
Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers. 1608-1661 1863
knitandpurl commented on the word wharling
"Neither were we dwarfish, or of a giantlike stature, but proportional, with brown hair, sound teeth, sweet breath, and tunable voices—not given to wharling in the throat, I mean, or speaking through the nose, unless we had a cold—yet we were none so prone to beauty as she, and I perhaps least of them all."
Margaret the First by Danielle Dutton
December 12, 2016