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Definition of Caterwaul
1. Verb. Utter shrieks, as of cats.
2. Noun. The yowling sound made by a cat in heat.
Definition of Caterwaul
1. v. i. To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise.
2. n. A caterwauling.
Definition of Caterwaul
1. Verb. (intransitive) To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensive noise. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To have a noisy argument, like cats. ¹
3. Noun. A yowling. ¹
4. Noun. A noisy quarrel. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Caterwaul
1. [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Caterwaul
Literary usage of Caterwaul
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"caterwaul. I (6 S. x. 237; 1884). I merely give the old etymology found in ...
caterwaul. II (6 S. x. 356; 1884). The suggestion made in N. and Q. 6 SX 317 ..."
2. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1901)
"Send the whisper round that caterwaul or Hat Trick will win—we have plenty of
chaps ready to ... Let's see,' said Jack ; 'who rides caterwaul and the other? ..."
3. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... to make an inarticulate noise, to caterwaul; ' Cats that ... (sv caterwaul).
wray, to disclose. Gascoigne, Works, i. 41. ..."
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