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Definition growl

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 *gruljan? (“to make a sound; to growl, grumble, rumble”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?er- (“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.

Noun

growl (plural growls)

  1. A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.
  2. (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a person's stomach when hungry.
  3. (by extension) An aggressive grumbling.
  4. (jazz, by extension) A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.

Verb

growl (third-person singular simple present growls, present participle growling, simple past and past participle growled)

  1. (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
  2. (intransitive, jazz) Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
  3. (intransitive, software) To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
  4. (transitive) To express (something) by growling.
  5. (transitive, jazz) To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.

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