yowling, vbl. n.
(ˈjaʊlɪŋ)
[f. yowl v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb yowl; esp. the uttering of a prolonged wailing cry.
| a 1225 Juliana 57 Ȝe, quoð eleusius, haldest tu ȝetten up o þi ȝuhelunge? a 1250 Owl & Night. 40 Me luste bet speten þane singe Of þine fule ȝoȝelinge [Jesus MS. howelynge]. Ibid. 1643 Mid ȝulinge & mid igrede. 1382 Wyclif Gen. xxvii. 38 With a greet ȝowlyng [1388 ȝellyng; Vulg. ejulatu] he wepte. c 1440 Alphabet of Tales 179 He vanysshid away with grete crying & yowlyng. 1528 Lyndesay Dreme 165 Ȝowtyng and ȝowlyng we hard, with mony ȝell. 1632 Lithgow Trav. x. 466 The water..strangled and swallowed vp my breath from youling and groaning. 1710 Acc. Last Distemper of Tom Whigg i. 19 He..set all the Dogs in the Town a yowling. 1844 Thackeray White Squall vi, Then the wind set up a howling, And the poodle dog a yowling. 1894 W. C. Russell Good Ship ‘Mohock’ vii, The hoarse yowling of pulling and dragging sailors. |
So ˈyowling ppl. a., that yowls.
| c 1590 W. Fowler Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 193/11 All thir cold nights..I wishe for day,..disturb'd with youling hounds. 1790 Alex. Wilson Callamphitres Elegy Poet. Wks. (1846) 104 Wi' yowling clinch auld Jennock ran. 1843 Thackeray Men's Wives, Mr. & Mrs. Berry ii, Her little yowling black-muzzled darling of a Fido. 1899 Baring-Gould Furze Bloom iii. 33 Think what it 'ud be wi' two yowlin' females under one roof! |