Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a growling manner; with a growl.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a growling manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
growling manner; withgrowls .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Normally, I'd be starvingly, stomach-growlingly hungry before 10 a.m - hell, before 9 a.m.
Food For Thought juliette 2009
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Normally, I'd be starvingly, stomach-growlingly hungry before 10 a.m - hell, before 9 a.m.
Archive 2009-07-01 juliette 2009
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I growlingly compromised by getting her Barbie with dog that really poos and pooper scooper.
You have to laugh... Spinningfishwife 2008
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His tone can be classically pure, sweetly romantic, growlingly dirty or piercingly insistent, depending on what he feels is appropriate for the music at hand.
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The growlingly exuberant rendering of that paean to predation, "Mack the Knife," was one of many seductive voices that sang the siren song of New York.
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Steelkilt, they preceded him down into their dark den, growlingly disappearing, like bears into a cave.
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He turned his steps toward the house, feeling a growlingly familiar weight of depression.
Truly Balogh, Mary 1996
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"What's all this rumpus about?" came growlingly from the entrance; and the children turned to see Dr. Dudley surveying them, his eyes a-twinkle with fun.
Polly of the Hospital Staff Emma C. Dowd
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They fly; they roll over one another, growlingly throwing out lightning before them, as their torches, and leaving suspended behind them a long train of rain, like a vaporous robe.
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"Mind your own business," he'd answer me growlingly
Lysistrata 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes
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