yowl
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yowl
- /jaʊl/
Rhymes with -aʊl
Where it comes from
From Middle English youlen, goulen, from Old Norse gaula (“to low, bellow, howl, scream”), related to Icelandic gaula (“to yell, howl, roar”), Faroese geyla (“to bawl, squall, shout, yell, bellow”), Norwegian gaule (“to roar, howl, whine, weep noisily”), dialectal Swedish gjöla, Scots gowl (“to howl, yell, roar”), Shetlandic Scots gjol. Initial y- possibly influenced by Middle English yollen, yellen (“to yell”).
noun yowls
- A prolonged, loud cry, like the sound of an animal; a wail; a howl. “Before he was a twel’month ould he had a mouth full o’ great teeth; his hands wor like ’s claws, and his legs wor no thicker nor the handle of a whip, and about as straight as a rapin’ hook; to make the matther worse, he had the gut uv a cormorant, and the whinge, and the yelp, and the screech, and
verb yowls · yowling · yowled
- To utter a yowl.
- To express by yowling; to utter with a yowl. Hailstar stepped from the ranks of RiverClan, his pelt like fire in the dying sun. "An ancient wrong has been put right!" he yowled. "These rocks are ours again!"
Translations
Talk about this word "yowl." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/yowl. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. yowl. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/yowl "yowl." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/yowl.Cite this
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title = {yowl},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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