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Synonyms for caterwauling
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : kat-er-wawl |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkæt ərˌwɔl |
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Définition of caterwauling
Origin :- late 14c., caterwrawen, perhaps from Low German katerwaulen "cry like a cat," or formed in English from cater, from Middle Dutch cater "tomcat" + Middle English waul "to yowl," apparently from Old English *wrag, *wrah "angry," of uncertain origin but all somehow imitative. Related: Caterwauled; caterwauling.
- verb make screeching, crying noise
- It was answered by a fearful burst of caterwauling from the interior of the house.
- Extract from : « Little Folks (October 1884) » by Various
- The caterwauling of cats was as nothing to the growls of his disgust.
- Extract from : « The Giant of the North » by R.M. Ballantyne
- Why, sir, all that caterwauling and stamping was to hide what they were about.
- Extract from : « The Black Bar » by George Manville Fenn
- "Like the caterwauling of erotic cats on a midnight roof," said he.
- Extract from : « Painted Veils » by James Huneker
- And his wife is one of the most brazen she-devils that ever joined a caterwauling!
- Extract from : « The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman » by Eugne Sue
- It used to put our own caterwauling concerts to utter shame.
- Extract from : « A Prisoner in Turkey » by John Still
- She still kept up her caterwauling and there was no peace in the house.
- Extract from : « Canadian Fairy Tales » by Cyrus Macmillan
- Most of it, he said, seemed to him to be little more than sensual caterwauling.
- Extract from : « The Book of This and That » by Robert Lynd
- You mutter maledictions on the infernal noise and caterwauling.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 » by Various
- All at once I missed the howling, and the caterwauling grew wilder.
- Extract from : « Lilith » by George MacDonald
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