dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/yow_MW.json

{
  "yowl":{
    "antonyms":[
      "cry",
      "holler",
      "hoot",
      "howl",
      "shout",
      "whoop",
      "yell"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a loud long mournful wail or howl (as of a cat)":[],
      ": to complain or protest with or as if with yowls":[],
      ": to express with yowling":[],
      ": to utter a loud long cry of grief, pain, or distress : wail":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "The cat was yowling outside.",
      "He was yowling in pain.",
      "Noun",
      "the cat gave a yowl of anger",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "In normal times, life in any city means a constant barrage of sounds: car horns, yowling cats, heated arguments from windows overhead\u2014often over inconsequential things. \u2014 Samer Kalaf, The New Republic , 10 Apr. 2020",
      "Sirens yowled and vents whistled; a motorcycle potato-potato-potatoed and a can skittered on the concrete. \u2014 Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic , 8 Oct. 2019",
      "The bleacher bums behind me began to emit guttural effusions, a sort of existential, yowling yodel. \u2014 Michael Powell, New York Times , 31 Oct. 2019",
      "Detuned guitars warble from the corners of songs; the visuals go medieval; the dark lord Ozzy Osbourne yowls one chorus. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 Sep. 2019",
      "Some, at 15, were already fantasizing about marshaling breakfast for whining, barking, yowling households. \u2014 Sarah Ruden, National Review , 22 Aug. 2019",
      "Or your just moved-in, very sweet neighbors with the sick, yowling cat",
      "My normally mild-mannered dog lost her mind, yowling and dancing around the kitchen until someone, anyone, would give her even the smallest morsel of cheese. \u2014 Molly Fitzpatrick, Bon Appetit , 26 Apr. 2018",
      "The brown mutts yowled into the blackness of the forest. \u2014 Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads , 2 Apr. 2018",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Then, a human yowl cuts through with the urgency of a distress signal. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
      "Stop pausing to yowl when a call doesn\u2019t go your way. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
      "The wind rose to a sustained yowl , shredded the treetops, racked the old lean-to, seemed to be swelling toward a terrible end. \u2014 Earl Swift, Outside Online , 2 Sep. 2015",
      "As usual, his instinctive approach and trademark yowl created additional ambiguities: there are ghost words here. \u2014 Brad Shoup, Billboard , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "But, when Yarielis suddenly turned red, opening her mouth in a silent, tearful yowl , the children screamed for their mother to help her. \u2014 Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com , 24 Dec. 2021",
      "The song is a bluesy slow-burner packed with the singer's signature yowl , and is featured prominently in the Season 2 finale of the Juliette Lewis-starring FacebookWatch series Sacred Lies. \u2014 Claire Lobenfeld, EW.com , 9 Apr. 2020",
      "Hearses and Gucci furs and callous relationship advice and desperate questioning all get strung together in drowsy yowls with strikingly logical syntax. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 8 Dec. 2019",
      "Miley Cyrus, in her rodeo yowl on the song, warns some boy to quit it with the pet names. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 5 Nov. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8yau\u0307l",
      "\u02c8yau\u0307(-\u0259)l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "beef",
      "bellyache",
      "bitch",
      "bleat",
      "carp",
      "caterwaul",
      "complain",
      "crab",
      "croak",
      "fuss",
      "gripe",
      "grizzle",
      "grouch",
      "grouse",
      "growl",
      "grumble",
      "grump",
      "holler",
      "inveigh",
      "keen",
      "kick",
      "kvetch",
      "maunder",
      "moan",
      "murmur",
      "mutter",
      "nag",
      "repine",
      "scream",
      "squawk",
      "squeal",
      "wail",
      "whimper",
      "whine",
      "whinge",
      "yammer",
      "yawp",
      "yaup"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-053045",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "yowling":{
    "antonyms":[
      "cry",
      "holler",
      "hoot",
      "howl",
      "shout",
      "whoop",
      "yell"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a loud long mournful wail or howl (as of a cat)":[],
      ": to complain or protest with or as if with yowls":[],
      ": to express with yowling":[],
      ": to utter a loud long cry of grief, pain, or distress : wail":[]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "The cat was yowling outside.",
      "He was yowling in pain.",
      "Noun",
      "the cat gave a yowl of anger",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "In normal times, life in any city means a constant barrage of sounds: car horns, yowling cats, heated arguments from windows overhead\u2014often over inconsequential things. \u2014 Samer Kalaf, The New Republic , 10 Apr. 2020",
      "Sirens yowled and vents whistled; a motorcycle potato-potato-potatoed and a can skittered on the concrete. \u2014 Bianca Bosker, The Atlantic , 8 Oct. 2019",
      "The bleacher bums behind me began to emit guttural effusions, a sort of existential, yowling yodel. \u2014 Michael Powell, New York Times , 31 Oct. 2019",
      "Detuned guitars warble from the corners of songs; the visuals go medieval; the dark lord Ozzy Osbourne yowls one chorus. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 9 Sep. 2019",
      "Some, at 15, were already fantasizing about marshaling breakfast for whining, barking, yowling households. \u2014 Sarah Ruden, National Review , 22 Aug. 2019",
      "Or your just moved-in, very sweet neighbors with the sick, yowling cat",
      "My normally mild-mannered dog lost her mind, yowling and dancing around the kitchen until someone, anyone, would give her even the smallest morsel of cheese. \u2014 Molly Fitzpatrick, Bon Appetit , 26 Apr. 2018",
      "The brown mutts yowled into the blackness of the forest. \u2014 Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads , 2 Apr. 2018",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "Then, a human yowl cuts through with the urgency of a distress signal. \u2014 New York Times , 27 June 2022",
      "Stop pausing to yowl when a call doesn\u2019t go your way. \u2014 Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com , 18 May 2022",
      "The wind rose to a sustained yowl , shredded the treetops, racked the old lean-to, seemed to be swelling toward a terrible end. \u2014 Earl Swift, Outside Online , 2 Sep. 2015",
      "As usual, his instinctive approach and trademark yowl created additional ambiguities: there are ghost words here. \u2014 Brad Shoup, Billboard , 24 Mar. 2022",
      "But, when Yarielis suddenly turned red, opening her mouth in a silent, tearful yowl , the children screamed for their mother to help her. \u2014 Amanda Milkovits, BostonGlobe.com , 24 Dec. 2021",
      "The song is a bluesy slow-burner packed with the singer's signature yowl , and is featured prominently in the Season 2 finale of the Juliette Lewis-starring FacebookWatch series Sacred Lies. \u2014 Claire Lobenfeld, EW.com , 9 Apr. 2020",
      "Hearses and Gucci furs and callous relationship advice and desperate questioning all get strung together in drowsy yowls with strikingly logical syntax. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 8 Dec. 2019",
      "Miley Cyrus, in her rodeo yowl on the song, warns some boy to quit it with the pet names. \u2014 Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic , 5 Nov. 2019"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "13th century, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense 1":"Verb",
      "15th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English":"Verb"
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8yau\u0307l",
      "\u02c8yau\u0307(-\u0259)l"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "beef",
      "bellyache",
      "bitch",
      "bleat",
      "carp",
      "caterwaul",
      "complain",
      "crab",
      "croak",
      "fuss",
      "gripe",
      "grizzle",
      "grouch",
      "grouse",
      "growl",
      "grumble",
      "grump",
      "holler",
      "inveigh",
      "keen",
      "kick",
      "kvetch",
      "maunder",
      "moan",
      "murmur",
      "mutter",
      "nag",
      "repine",
      "scream",
      "squawk",
      "squeal",
      "wail",
      "whimper",
      "whine",
      "whinge",
      "yammer",
      "yawp",
      "yaup"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-070422",
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ]
  },
  "yow":{
    "type":[
      "interjection"
    ],
    "definitions":{},
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8y\u014d",
      "\u02c8yau\u0307",
      "\""
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English yowe":"Interjection"
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213418"
  }
}