yowl
9 synonyms for yowl, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Noun — A long loud cry, similar to an animal's howl.
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Etymology
Yowl came into English from Middle English youlen or goulen, which developed from Old Norse gaula (“to low, bellow, howl, scream”). It is 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...
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