growl
Plural: growls
Noun
- the sound of growling (as made by animals)
- A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.
- A similar sound made by a human.
- The rumbling sound made by a human's hungry stomach.
- An aggressive grumbling.
- A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.
- Death growl
Verb
Verb Forms: growled, growling, growls
- To make a low, guttural, angry sound.
- to utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
- To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
- Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
- To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
- To express (something) by growling.
- To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.
- To perform death growl vocals.
Examples
- His stomach would GROWL during long Words With Friends matches.
- The dog growled at me as I walked past.
- The old man growled his displeasure at the postman.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English groulen, grollen, gurlen (“of the bowels: to growl, rumble”), either possibly from Old French groler (variant of croler (“to be agitated, shake”)), grouler, grouller (“to growl, grumble”), from Frankish *grullen, *gruljan or from Old English gryllan, both from Proto-Germanic *gruljaną (“to make a sound; to growl, grumble, rumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰer- (“to make a noise; to mumble, murmur; to rattle; to grind; to rub, stroke”), probably ultimately imitative. The word is cognate with Middle Dutch grollen (“to make a noise; to croak, grumble, murmur; to be angry”) (modern Dutch grollen (“to grumble”)), German grollen (“to rumble; to be angry, bear ill will”), Old English grillan, griellan (“to provoke, offend; to gnash the teeth”). Compare grill.
The noun is derived from the verb.
Scrabble Score: 9
growl: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgrowl: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
growl: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary