wrawl, v. Obs. exc. north. dial.
Also 4 wral, 6 wrall, 7 wralle; 5, 7 wrawle, 6, 8 wraul, 7 wraule, 6– wrawl (9 dial. rawwl); also 4 (9 dial.) warl.
[Imitative. Cf. Norw. vraula, raula; also Da. vraale, vræle, Sw. vråla, LG. wrâlen, to squall, bellow, scream.]
1. intr. To utter an inarticulate noise or sound; to bawl, squall.
| c 1440 Ipomydon 1835 Thus he wrawled & wroth a way, One word to hyr he nolde not say. 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 191 Bralling fooles that wrall for euerie wrong. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 152 Man alone..she hath laid all naked upon the bare earth,..to cry and wraule presently from the very first houre that he is borne into this world. 1606 L. Bryskett Civ. Life 53 Euer crying and wrawling for they wote not what. c 1780 M. Lonsdale in S. Gilpin Songs Cumbld. (1866) 276 Guidman stuid wraulin at her lug, An' ca'd her many a garrick. 1811 Willan in Archaeol. (1814) XVII. 163 Wrawling, quarrelling, or contending with a loud voice. 1859 B. Brierley Daisy Nook 49 A lot o' dhrunken chaps rawlin' wi' one another. |
† 2. Of cat:
= wraw v.
Obs.—1| 1596 Spenser F.Q. vi. xii. 27 Some were..of cats, that wrawling still did cry. |
Hence
ˈwrawler, one who brawls or squalls;
ˈwrawling vbl. n. and ppl. a.| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 37/2 Blaffoorde or *warlare [Winch. MS. wrawlere].., traulus. 1579–80 North Plutarch (1595) 55 Neither were..[the children] cryers, wrallers, or vnhappy children. |
| a 1530 Heywood Johan & Tyb. (Brandl.) 365 She wyll neuer leue her *wrawlyng. 1570 Googe Popish Kingd. ii. (1880) 21 b, Children there that lye, And fill their eares with wrawling all the night. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 1219 Cries and wrawlings of an infinite number of children. 1623 New & Merry Prognost. E 2, Beggars loue brawling, And wretches loue wrawling. |
| 1573 A. Anderson Expos. of Benedict. 30 To quiet & make stil his wanton and *wrauling cryes. 1619 R. West Bk. Demeanor 60 in Babees Bk., Nor practize snuffingly to speake, for that doth imitate The brutish Storke..and the wralling cat. c 1620 Welsh Embass. iv. 1510 [The women] to still their wrawlinge bastards cry out, husht [etc.]. |