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Definition of Growling
1. Noun. A gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal).
2. Noun. The sound of growling (as made by animals).
Definition of Growling
1. Adjective. Producing a growl. ¹
2. Noun. A sustained instance of growls or guttural noises. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of growl) ¹
4. Verb. musical device where a 'growling' sound is produced on a brass instrument by literally growling with the vocal cords while playing the note. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Growling
1. growl [v] - See also: growl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Growling
Literary usage of Growling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"You see how dull the nerves are yet," said growling to Murphy ; " that's ...
"You see what that last touch did," said growling, gravely; "but the palate is ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1902)
"'This d 1 of a frost hinders me, and so Mr B. and I sit scolding and grumbling
and growling, he because he can't course, and I because I can't hunt, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... safely be played with, and who, though he might be teased into barking and
growling, had no disposition to bite and would not do it without orders". ..."
4. The Works of Virgil by Virgil (1891)
"... and from a distance we hear a loud growling of the ocean, the beaten rocks,
and the murmurs of breakers on the coast : the deep" leaps up, and sands are ..."
5. The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (1904)
"The swinging cradle lulls the whimpering babe Meantime ; while growling round,
if at the tread Of hasty passenger alarm'd, as of their store Protective, ..."
6. The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day (1826)
"... and were going to have punished him for his ill behaviour; but he patted Tiger
upon the back, who began snarling and growling in such a manner, ..."
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