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wrawl, v. Obs. exc. north. dial.
Also 4 wral, 6 wrall, 7 wralle; 5, 7 wrawle, 6, 8 wraul, 7 wraule, 6– wrawl (9 dial. rawwl); also 4 (9 dial.) warl.
[Imitative. Cf. Norw. vraula, raula; also Da. vraale, vræle, Sw. vråla, LG. wrâlen, to squall, bellow, scream.]
1. intr. To utter an inarticulate noise or sound; to bawl, squall.
c1440Ipomydon 1835 Thus he wrawled & wroth a way, One word to hyr he nolde not say. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 191 Bralling fooles that wrall for euerie wrong. 1601Holland Pliny I. 152 Man alone..she hath laid all naked upon the bare earth,..to cry and wraule presently from the very first houre that he is borne into this world. 1606L. Bryskett Civ. Life 53 Euer crying and wrawling for they wote not what. c1780M. Lonsdale in S. Gilpin Songs Cumbld. (1866) 276 Guidman stuid wraulin at her lug, An' ca'd her many a garrick. 1811Willan in Archaeol. (1814) XVII. 163 Wrawling, quarrelling, or contending with a loud voice. 1859B. Brierley Daisy Nook 49 A lot o' dhrunken chaps rawlin' wi' one another.
†2. Of cat: = wraw v. Obs.—1
1596Spenser F.Q. vi. xii. 27 Some were..of cats, that wrawling still did cry.
Hence ˈwrawler, one who brawls or squalls; ˈwrawling vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1440Promp. Parv. 37/2 Blaffoorde or *warlare [Winch. MS. wrawlere].., traulus. 1579–80North Plutarch (1595) 55 Neither were..[the children] cryers, wrallers, or vnhappy children.
a1530Heywood Johan & Tyb. (Brandl.) 365 She wyll neuer leue her *wrawlyng. 1570Googe Popish Kingd. ii. (1880) 21 b, Children there that lye, And fill their eares with wrawling all the night. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1219 Cries and wrawlings of an infinite number of children. 1623New & Merry Prognost. E 2, Beggars loue brawling, And wretches loue wrawling.
1573A. Anderson Expos. of Benedict. 30 To quiet & make stil his wanton and *wrauling cryes. 1619R. West Bk. Demeanor 60 in Babees Bk., Nor practize snuffingly to speake, for that doth imitate The brutish Storke..and the wralling cat. c1620Welsh Embass. iv. 1510 [The women] to still their wrawlinge bastards cry out, husht [etc.]. |