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Yowl

noun
1.
A very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal).  Synonyms: bellow, bellowing, holla, holler, hollering, hollo, holloa, roar, roaring.






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"Yowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... another day. The last crack of a triphammer, peckering at a giant pile of iron down the block, dies out on the dead air. A taxicab, rrrrr-ing in the street below, grunts its horn. A newsboy, in neuralgic yowl, bawls out a sporting extra. Another "L" train and the panes rattle again. A momentary quiet ... and from somewhere in a nearby street I hear a grind-organ. What is the tune it is playing? I've heard it, I know—somewhere; but—no, I can't remember. I try—I ...
— Europe After 8:15 • H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright

... haen a damn'd guid innins," he interrupted. "A dam'd guid innins, an' I canna see what the hell you hae to yowl at." ...
— The Underworld - The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner • James C. Welsh



Words linked to "Yowl" :   cry, yell, pipe, shout, emit, vociferation, pipe up, let out, shriek, outcry, call, let loose, shrill, wrawl, utter



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