单词 | squaller |
释义 | squallern. One who squalls or screams; one addicted to squalling; esp. a screaming child. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [noun] > scream or shriek > person wrawlerc1440 screaker1549 shreamer1573 screecher1585 squaller1688 shrieker1708 screamer1712 squealer1864 skriker1891 1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Sss2/1 Squawler, Celui (ou Celle) qui crie. 1761 Ann. Reg. 1760 220 Italian squallers oft disgrace the stage. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) II. 538 I don't mind nosegays, nor these little squallers [nightingales]. 1816 M. W. Shelley in Dowden Life Shelley (1887) II. 62 Tell me, shall you be happy to have another little squaller? 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 24 Mothers always sent for him to calm refractory squallers. 1872 ‘A. Merion’ Odd Echoes Oxf. 42 Fifty babies too, Warranted loud squallers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1688 |
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