Crossword clues for growling
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Growl \Growl\ (groul), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Growled (grould);
p. pr. & vb. n. Growling.] [D. grollen to grunt, murmur, be
angry; akin to G. grollen to be angry.]
To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry dog; to give
forth an angry, grumbling sound.
--Gay.
Wiktionary
Producing a growl. n. A sustained instance of growls or guttural noises. v
1 (present participle of growl English) 2 musical device where a 'growling' sound is produced on a brass instrument by literally growling with the vocal cords while playing the note.
WordNet
n. a gruff or angry utterance (suggestive of the growling of an animal)
the sound of growling (as made by animals) [syn: growl]
Wikipedia
Growling is a low, guttural vocalization produced by predatory animals.
Growling or growl may also refer to:
Growling or growl is a low, guttural vocalization produced by predatory animals as a warning to others, as a sign of aggression, or to express anger. Low or dull rumbling noises may also be emitted by human beings when discontent with something or angry. The human sound is often termed "groaning".
Grrr is an onomatopoeic word which imitates the growling sound of predatory animals, and is often used with other related meanings. It is one of the rare pronounceable words of the English language that consists solely of consonants. Its most simple use is by children imitating animals. An example would be: "Daddy! Look at me! I'm a polar bear! Grrr!" This word is also widely used in various titles to express growling.
Woodwind growling is a musical technique where the instrumentalist vocalizes into the instrument to alter quality of the sound. Growling is used primarily in rock and blues style playing; it is popular in the woodwind family of instruments, especially the saxophone. It is commonly used by mainstream artists such as Ben Webster, Illinois Jacquet and Earl Bostic. Outside of these styles and instruments, it is often considered a novelty effect.
The growl gives the performer's sound a dark, guttural, gritty timbre resulting largely from the rustle noise and desirable consonance and dissonance effects produced. The technique of simultaneous playing a note and singing into an instrument is also known as horn chords or multiphonics.
Usage examples of "growling".
With a growling stomach and uncertain optimism, he walked through the site, finding a garbage dump and a few forgotten odds and ends.
Thirty miles of grinding, growling, gravel road later, they reached Abney, a once-booming mining town that had long since withered and now had trouble remembering why it was there.
A tenuous aerogel foam bubbled and farted, rushing out into a ballooning mass as the dog lunged forward, teeth snapping, making a soft growling sound deep in its throat.
But no sooner were they afloat than a savage growling from one of the apes directly ahead of him in the dugout attracted his attention to a shivering and cowering figure that trembled between him and the great anthropoid.
The apes of Akut, terrified by the sound, ran hither and thither, snarling and growling.
Barnacle Bill was uncharacteristically untipsy, and Maximus got into the spirit of the occasion, growling and clawing bloodthirstily but performing as tamely and willingly as a dog.
They were out on Bear Hill the whole day, beating up the bushes as if for game, scaring old crows out of their ragged nests, and in one dark glen startling a fierce-eyed, growling, bobtailed catamount, who sat spitting and looking all ready to spring at them, on the tall tree where he clung with his claws unsheathed, until a young fellow came up with a gun and shot him dead.
I itched to throw a bootjack at him, but compromised on doing a little growling myself.
She looked back, and saw that the catawampus was growling on the brink, unable to catch her here.
The beast emitted such a fierce growling that it might have been heard through all Connacht, and he moved on the youth as if he had a mind not to stop and tear him up at all, but to swallow him at the one mouthful.
For long hours that night I lay sleepless, staring at the ceiling and listening to the soft rustling and random growling of the feral curs skulking outside the tent, sniffing for stale crusts of bread or untended flesh.
Drum and cymbals broke the growling chant with a blow of fierce emphasis, and the voices all together held one long, grinding note that was like the dragging of a boulder over rock.
There seemed to be an upward twist to his eyebrows and ears and hair, and a downward twist to his mouth, so that there was a fiavor of old Diavolo about him that would have set me to growling like Pinky if I had been given to growling, even if the gentleman had not had a mislikable air of having listened to what we were saying.
Not to be outdone, other handlers got their dogs into the act and soon all the dogs were growling, biting and tearing husks off coconuts.
Long before Pruitt reached the gate, her dog -- so black Denny could see nothing but teeth and eyeshine -- had rushed up and was growling through the woven wire.