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单词 howling
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howlingn.

/ˈhaʊlɪŋ/
Etymology: < howl v. + -ing suffix1.
1.
a. The uttering of a prolonged wailing cry, as by the dog, wolf, or other animal; the production of a similar sound by the wind or other inanimate agent; the ciphering of an organ.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [noun] > howl or whine > howling or whining
yowlinga1225
howlingc1440
whiningc1440
whimperingc1522
whewling1609
whinging1720
whinneringa1871
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [noun] > howl, wail, or whine
howlingc1440
howla1616
wail1825
zinging1921
bloop1931
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 250/1 Howlynge of doggys.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. xxv Ticius Sabinus hounde..abode wyth the deed body wyth dolefull and sorowfull noyse and howlynge [Bodl. MS. ȝelling].
c1575 G. Ducket in R. Eden Martyr's Decades (1577) f. 328v Two or three hundred Foxes, whiche make a marueylous wawelyng or howlyng.
1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 2 The Isle of Stromboli..I was told that they who were near it heard great howlings, which proceed not from Hell..but from the violence of the Winds.
1735 W. Somervile Chace iv. 225 His Tail incurv'd He drops, and with harsh broken Howlings rends The poison-tainted Air.
1852 tr. J. J. Seidel Organ & its Constr. 45 To remedy the so-called howling or sounding-on of certain pipes, when their respective keys are not pressed down.
1876 J. Hiles Catech. Organ (1878) xvi. 139 [Organ-building] ciphering [is the] sounding of a single note without any key being pressed down; this is sometimes called howling, or humming.
b. The emission of howls (howl n. 1b) by a loudspeaker; undesirable feedback at audio frequencies in an amplifier.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [noun] > howl, wail, or whine > in loudspeaker
howling1920
howl1921
1920 Radio Rev. Apr. 356 The resistance R3 and condenser C3 connected to the grid of the selected valve are increased in value until maximum amplification is obtained without ‘howling’.
1939 H. J. Hicks Princ. & Pract. Radio Servicing xiii. 228 Open by-pass condensers across any of the tube elements..will often cause howling.
1953 J. E. Haines Automatic Control of Heating xiv. 340 The variation exhibits a definite rhythm—in a manner analogous to the howling of a telephone when the sound waves from the receiver are fed back to the transmitter.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) I. 520/2 Suppression of the low frequencies..in rooms that are excessively reverberant..increases the intelligibility of the speech and reduces the possibility of acoustic feedback (howling).
2. A prolonged wailing outcry of human beings.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > wail or howl
yowlinga1225
yei?a1289
yollinga1300
howling1490
yowl?a1513
yawling1568
blayinga1586
whewling1609
howla1616
vagitusa1651
ululation?1799
gowl1805
waul1856
wow1862
whoo1891
blarting1898
ululance1951
the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > cry of grief > [noun] > wailing
reameOE
woningc950
reminga1200
wailinga1400
bewailing1485
howling1490
yammer?a1513
wailc1540
wailment1593
bewailment1607
ejulationa1620
alleleu1689
yammering1705
ululation?1799
waly-walying1821
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xliii. 169 Grete crye, noyse, and houlyng made the sarasyns.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 48 Banished. O Frier, the damned vse that word in hell: Howling attends it. View more context for this quotation
1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 257 But for the greater solemnity, for seven dayes a general howling..was made.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 95 A sad Lementation and Howling.
1887 A. Müller in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 663/1 The insane howlings hu hu (‘he, he’)..practised by the ‘howling’ Rifá'íya [Dervishes].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

howlingadj.

Etymology: < howl v. + -ing suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈhowling.
1. That howls; that utters or produces a prolonged wailing sound. Spec. howling baboon, howling monkey = howler n. 1b.
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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > [adjective] > that howls or whines
whining15..
yowlingc1590
plainful1598
whimpering1598
howlinga1605
whinging1720
wailful1818
ululating1894
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adjective] > howl, wail, or whine
wailinga1577
howlinga1605
wailful1818
honing1837
wailsome1891
the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Alouatta (howler monkey)
guariba1753
howling monkey1769
warine1774
alouatte1779
howler monkey1800
araguato1852
congo ape1859
red howler1865
Congo monkey1874
ursine howler1884
Stentor1891
a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 195 Where howlring howlets aye doth hant.
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xix. 217 I believe you mean the howling Quakers, as uncivil as they are.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana ii. 133 The Howling Baboons, as they are here called, seem to be the animals which are here described by Marcgrave, and which are called by the natives of Brasil, Guereba.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana ii. 135 There is another Monkey, somewhat larger than the howling Monkey, which is covered with long reddish hair.
1813 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. (ed. 4) I. 86 (heading) The howling monkey.
1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 285 Peals of thunder..followed by a howling blast of wind.
1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. I. §159 The Myceti, or Howling Monkeys.
1853 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. 21 The Howling Monkeys are larger and more clumsy than the Spider Monkeys.
1863 H. W. Bates Naturalist on River Amazons I. ii. 72 Morning and evening the howling monkeys make a most fearful and harrowing noise.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile ii. 37 And now, their guttural chorus audible long before they arrived in sight, came the howling dervishes.
1924 C. W. Domville-Fife Among Wild Tribes of Amazons viii. 121 On reaching camp..in the half light it was just possible to see the huddled and impaled body of a furry guaribas, or howling monkey (simia mycetes).
1959 Jrnl. Mammalogy 40 317 (title) Field observations on a howling monkey society.
2. Characterized by, or filled with, howling, as of wild beasts or of the wind; dreary. In the Biblical howling wilderness, and derived phrases, the word tends to become merely intensive.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > productiveness > unproductiveness > [adjective]
unbearingc825
deafc897
westyOE
wastumlessc975
wilderna1050
drya1340
gelda1350
barren1377
unfructuousa1382
poora1387
ungreenc1400
infecundc1420
farrow1494
fruitlessa1513
unfruitful1531
sterile1552
hungry1577
penurious1594
unfertile1596
infertile1598
howling1611
ungenitureda1616
arid1656
infecundous1661
ungendering1706
yeld1721
unproductive1725
infructuose1727
ungenerative1733
fallow1791
nihili-parturient1812
dowf1824
wastec1825
non-productive1830
unreproductive1836
infructuous1860
unvintaged1869
increative1877
ablastemic1881
submarginal1895
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adjective] > howl, wail, or whine > characterized by
howling1611
1611 Bible (King James) Deut. xxxii. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wildernesse. View more context for this quotation
1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 222 The very Sight of those howling Desarts deterr me.
1728 J. Thomson Spring 2 His Blasts obey, and quit the howling Hill.
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) iv. 25 Going regularly aloft to bed..in a howling garret remote from the lodgers.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 79 Fit the bleak and howling place For gardens of a finer race.
a1862 H. D. Thoreau Maine Woods (1864) iii. 225 Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveller that does the howling.
3. figurative (chiefly slang.) Glaring, very pronounced, ‘screaming’: cf. howler n. 3. Also, extreme, great (colloquial).
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > very great
swappingc1440
bumping1566
thumping1576
swingeinga1592
knocking1598
gigantical1604
gigantine1605
gigantean1611
gigantal?1614
thundering1618
whoppinga1625
humming1654
rapping1657
whisking1673
threshing1707
sousing1735
nation1765
heroic1785
runaway1790
spanking1791
gigantic1797
whacking1797
cracking1834
ringing1834
bouncing1842
walloping1847
stavingc1850
banging1864
howling1865
whooping1866
smacking1888
God almighty1913
Christ almighty1961
society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adjective] > strikingly
notablea1398
staring?a1425
loud1535
gross1581
strong1583
signal1591
conspicuous1604
marked1620
remarked1623
ranka1640
signalized1652
bold1678
flaming1706
glaring1706
telegraphic1809
salient1841
howling1865
insistent1868
rampageous1889
1865 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 6/6 To risk a very vulgar phrase, a Nawab is ‘a howling swell’ in the East.
1884 Nonconformist & Independent 7 Aug. 766/3 Those mistakes which are sometimes called ‘howling’ blunders.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xliii. 365 Le's all three slide out of here, one of these nights, and get an outfit, and go for howling adventures amongst the Injuns.
1908 Magnet 1 1 ‘You howling ass!’ shouted Bulstrode. ‘I tell you he's busted my two-guinea camera.’
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Apr. 283/4 If his book is not a big, a very big, a ‘howling’ success..but I need offer no ‘if's’.
4. As adv. In the highest degree. (Cf. screamingly adv.) colloquial.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly
swithlyc888
micklelyeOE
swith971
hardOE
un-i-fohOE
sevenfoldlOE
unmeet?c1225
innerlyc1330
horribly1340
too1340
sore1474
horriblec1475
vehemently1483
outrageous1487
done?a1513
exquisite1529
strangely1532
exceeding1535
exceedingly1535
angardlyc1540
angerlyc1540
choicec1540
vengeable1542
vengeably?1550
extremelya1554
monstrous1569
thrice1579
amain1587
extremea1591
damnably1598
fellc1600
tyrannically1602
exquisitely1603
damnedly1607
preciously1607
damnablea1616
impensively1620
excellingly1621
main1632
fearful1634
vengeancelya1640
upsy1650
impensely1657
twadding1657
vastly1664
hideous1667
mainly1670
consumed1707
consumedly1707
outrageously1749
damned1757
nation1771
shockingly1777
deuced1779
darn1789
darned1807
felly1807
varsal1814
awful1816
awfy1816
frightfully1816
deucedly1819
dogged1819
awfully1820
gallowsa1823
shocking1831
tremendously1832
everlasting1833
terribly1833
fearfully1835
ripping1838
poison1840
thundering1853
frighteninglyc1854
raring1854
hell's own1863
goldarned1866
goddamned1870
doggone1871
acutely1872
whooping1874
stupidly1878
everlastingly1879
hideously1882
densely1883
storming1883
good and1885
thunderingly1885
crazy1887
tremendous1887
madly1888
goldarn1892
howling1895
murderously1916
rasted1919
goddam1921
bitchingly1923
Christly1923
bitching1929
falling-down1930
lousy1932
appallingly1937
stratospherically1941
Christ almighty1945
effing1945
focking1956
dagnab1961
drop-dead1980
hella1987
totes2006
1895 Cent. Mag. Sept. 678/2 It's howling lonesome at the Mule Deer.
1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 45 He'll be howling drunk to-night.
1928 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 4 Feb. 100/4 Glad! You're howling right I'm glad.

Derivatives

ˈhowlingly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > mournful or plaintive sound > [adverb] > howl, wail, or whine
howlingly1593
1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 25v The Owle on the house-toppe, euer-more howlingly calls for some Corse.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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