wrawl
English
Etymology
From Middle English wrawlen. Compare Danish vråle.
Verb
wrawl (third-person singular simple present wrawls, present participle wrawling, simple past and past participle wrawled)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To cry like a cat; to waul.
- Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book VI. Canto 12.
- Some were of dogs, that barked day and night, And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry.
- Thomas Hoccleve , The Plowman’s Tale, part 1.
- Such successours [of Peter] yben to bolde, In winning all ther witte thei wral.
- 1908, Will Sparks, Philopolis, volume 3, page 139:
- The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled.
- 1601, Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, Book VII.
- Man alone, poore wretch, she hath laid all naked upon the bare earth, even on his birth-day, to cry and wraule presently from the very first houre that he is borne into this worlde.
- 1603, Philemon Holland, Plutarch, Plutarch's Moralia.
- Howbeit, crying and wrawling as like as possibly might be to an infant new come into the world.
- Edmund Spenser, Faerie Queene, Book VI. Canto 12.
Derived terms
- wrawling (noun)
References
- “wrawl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.