wauln.
/wɔːl/, U.S. /wɔl/, /wɑl/ A loud cry or howl.
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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
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ululation?1799
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ululance1951
1856 G. Meredith Shaving of Shagpat 355 This was followed by..the waul of Krooz..and the complainings of Dob.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1923; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
waulwawlv.
/wɔːl/, U.S. /wɔl/, /wɑl/ intransitive. To utter the loud harsh cry characteristic of cats or of new-born babies.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry of emotion or pain > [verb (intransitive)] > scream or shriek
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skelloch1808
squalino1810
to scream (also cry, yell, etc.) blue murder1828
rescream1858
15.. Poems Gray MS. v. 19 (S.T.S) 51 Quhat helpis þan to wawill or weip?
1558 T. Phaer tr. Virgil Seuen First Bks. Eneidos vii. sig. S.ijv And figures foule of wolues thei heare for wo to fret and wawle.
1601 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus v. iv. 2151 Where cats do waule by day, dogges barke by night.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King Lear (1623) iv. v. 176 Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the Ayre We wawle [1608 wayl], and cry.
1620 J. Melton Astrologaster 52 Many people in these dayes cannot..heare a Dogge howle, or a Cat wawle, but instantly they will runne to the Calculator.
1681 Heraclitus Ridens 27 Sept. 2/2 Your Babes of Grace, which waul and cry because their Mother wou'd let them scratch her Eyes out.
1774 G. Colman Man of Business Prol. His brats..Brought up on playhouse pap, they waule and cry.
1871 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis iv. §§21–5. 420 The plaintiff on three market-days shall stand before the defendant's door and waul [1875 (ed. 2) wawl].
Derivatives
ˈwauling n. and adj.
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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] > scream or shriek
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squee1938
1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Iohan Iohan sig. A.iiv Wylt thou neuer leue this wawlyng?
1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. Fiij v Wolde Tolwyn haue bene a good Idoll mayntener with holye water and sensynge, latyne Iabberynge and wawlynge,..he had not bene thus brought forth for an heretyque.
1621 J. Molle tr. P. Camerarius Liuing Libr. v. xv. 380 Without the shameful bawling and wawling of Lawyers and Atturneys.
1648 Mistris Parliament brought to Bed 8 There was..heard terrible thunderings, intermix'd with wawling of Catts, howling of Doggs, and barking of Wolves.
a1708 T. Ward England's Reformation (1710) i. 121 Like snarling Dog and wawling puss.
1812 G. Colman Poet. Vagaries 95 Around his wawling presence swell A huge Seraglio, stock'd, pell-mell, With black, white, tabby, tortoise-shell.
1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 296 Grimalkin answered with a terrible wauling.
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