wrawl

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English

Etymology

From Middle English wrawlen. Compare Danish vråle.

Pronunciation

Verb

wrawl (third-person singular simple present wrawls, present participle wrawling, simple past and past participle wrawled)

  1. (obsolete, intransitive) To cry like a cat; to waul.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
      Some were of dogs, that barked day and night, And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry.
    • mid 15th century, 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, Plutarch, translated by Philemon Holland, Plutarch's Moralia:
      Howbeit, crying and wrawling as like as possibly might be to an infant new come into the world.

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