wharling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʍɔː(ɹ)lɪŋ/, /ˈwɔː(ɹ)lɪŋ/

Noun

wharling (uncountable)

1. A guttural pronunciation of the letter r; a wharl.
   • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:

     uttering their words with much difficulty and wharling in the throat

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “wharling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)