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whewl, v. Now dial.|hwjuːl, wjuːl|
Forms: 6 whewl, 7, 9 whule, 9 wewl.
[Echoic.]
intr. To cry plaintively, moan, whine, howl. Hence ˈwhewling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1560T. Phaer æneid x. (1562) Dd 4 b, Whiles whewling sad he sat. 1567Golding Ovid's Met. vii. 497 Lamenting for his sonnes mischaunce with whewling in the Aire. 1609Old Meg of Herefordsh. Ded. (1816), Tweire-pipe that famous Southren Taberer..who for whuling hath beene famous through the Globe of the world. 1615Chapman Odyss. xii. 135 For here, the whuling Scylla, shrowds her face. 1616S. S. Honest Lawyer ii. D 4 b, A Virgin..Could not with whuling nay's be so peruerse. Ibid. iv. H 4 b, You know the Iayle. Ha you neuer bin hir'd to yawle for the whole prison? and whule to the passengers? 1847Halliwell, Whule, to whine; to howl. Suffolk. 1895E. Anglian Gloss., Wewling, a plaintive note in crying, commonly with a view to excite charity. |