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Definition of Growly
1. deep and harsh in speech [adj GROWLIER, GROWLIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Growly
Literary usage of Growly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Riverside Magazine for Young People by Horace Elisha Scudder (1870)
"So he turned him round to sleep again, growly, growly, growly, When down came
the nuts like a patter of rain, With a ramble, scramble, ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1922)
"On my next trip to Newark I asked growly, "Haven't you any good books anywhere,
... It finally dawned cm me that growly had his number of boxes twisted, ..."
3. The Progressive Road to Reading: Story Steps by Clare Kleiser, William Louis Ettinger, Edgar Dubs Shimer (1917)
"The little pigeon flew and flew. She flew all day. She was afraid she would have
to go back and live next door to the growly-grizzly bear. ..."
4. The Progressive Road to Reading: Story Steps by Clare Kleiser, William Louis Ettinger, Edgar Dubs Shimer (1917)
"The little pigeon flew and flew. She flew all day. She was afraid she would have
to go back and live next door to the growly-grizzly bear. ..."
5. The Good American Vacaton Lessons by Frances Weld Danielson, Wilhelmina Stooker (1920)
"I should rather live next door to a growly, grizzly bear," she said to herself, "
than in the house with a child who cries like that." On and on she flew, ..."
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