yowl

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He stepped nearer, and Black Pussy's ferocious yowl was the only remonstrance as he stirred Scraggy roughly with his foot The thought that her boy did not want to go with her coursed slowly through the woman's brain.

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  1. intransitive verb To utter a long loud mournful cry; wail.
  2. transitive verb To say or utter with a yowl.
  3. noun A long loud mournful cry; a wail.

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  • Then he loosed a fresh yowl, longer and stronger than the previous ones. —  THE LIGHTKEEPER
  • A piercing yowl was clearly audible and then there was silence. —  Dragons Dawn
  • He bent down to get a good look at the weed and Oliver, frightened that de Gier would drop him, protested with a yowl, and extended twenty recently sharpened claws. —  Outsider in Amsterdam - Janwillem van de Wetering - Grijpstra-de Gier 01
  • An electric buzz of insects saturated the hot and humid air, nearly drowning out the occasional animal yowl or piercing caw from birds in the upper reaches of the run-down buildings around him. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 03 - September 2003
  • Come, come, don't be frightened She answered him with another yowl--the same three strange words He mulled the words over, trying to place them in his memory, that he might address her in her own dialect Suddenly, be flung her away. —  010 - The Phantom City
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English yowlen, probably of imitative origin .

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  1. Also youl; from Middle English yowlen, ʒoulen, also ʒaulen, from Icelandic gaula, howl: see yawl. Cf. yell.
  2. from yowl, v.
 

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