Crossword clues for growl
growl
- Stomach complaint
- Snarling sound
- Junkyard dog's warning
- Talk angrily
- Guttural utterance
- Ursine sound
- Sound of an angry dog
- Rumble in the jungle?
- Dog's noise
- Attack dog's sound
- Warning from a dog
- Unhappy utterance
- Talk like a curmudgeon, maybe
- Surly sound
- Sound of peke unease?[SEE NOTE ABOVE ABOUT LAST WEEK'S PUZZLE]
- Sound from Stephen King's Cujo
- Rottweiler's warning
- Rottweiler warning
- One might elicit a nervous "Nice dog"
- Emulate an empty stomach
- Empty stomach's sound
- Dog's danger signal
- Death metal vocal technique, perhaps
- Betray one's bad mood
- Angry dog's comment
- (Make a) menacing sound
- Sound of an empty stomach
- Stomach sound
- Canine threat
- Empty stomach sound
- Dog's warning
- Guttural sound
- Guttural warning
- Kennel sound
- Jazzy trombone sound
- Good lines to speak in a surly way
- Menacing sound from grey predator
- Menacing animal sound
- Sound of hostile dog
- Rough murmuring sound
- Pound to be put on Bud? Grrrrrrrr!
- Develop primarily loud threatening sound
- Threatening utterance to become pitiful in the end
- Watchdog's warning
- Warning sound
- Gut reaction?
- Boxer's warning
- Watchdog warning
- Canine complaint
- Guard dog's warning
- What empty stomachs do
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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.
Growl \Growl\, v. t.
To express by growling.
--Thomson.
Growl \Growl\, n. The deep, threatening sound made by a surly dog; a grumbling sound.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1660s, from Middle English grollen "to rumble, growl" (early 15c.), from Old French grouler "to rumble," said to be from Frankish; probably ultimately of imitative origin. Related: Growled; growling. The noun is 1727, from the verb.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The deep, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal; a grumbling sound. 2 The sound made by a hungry stomach. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. 2 (context transitive English) To express (something) by growling. 3 (context software English) To send a user a message via the http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/Growl%20(software) software library.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Growl is a global notification system and pop-up notification implementation for the Mac OS X and Windows operating systems. Applications can use Growl to display small notifications about events which may be important to the user. This software allows users to fully control their notifications, while allowing application developers to spend less time creating notifications and Growl developers to concentrate on the usability of notifications. Growl can be used in conjunction with Apple's Notification Center that is included in recent versions of OS X (Mountain Lion 10.8 and higher).
Growl, known in Japan as , is a belt-scrolling beat-'em-up originally released for the arcades by Taito in . Set in the early 20th century, the player controls a forest ranger who must protect the local wildlife from a group of evil poachers who are driving the animals to extinction. A home version was released for the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) on November 1991. It was also included in the arcade game compilation Taito Legends 2 for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows.
Growl is a 2008 album by Radioactive Man a pseudonym of Keith Tenniswood. It was his first release in five years as well as the first on his own label, Control Tower.
GROWL is an international education network for degrowth formed by academics, practitioners, researchers and political activists. One central aim of the network is to promote collective action across initiatives related to degrowth (e.g. Transition Towns, agroecology, Solidarity economy, DIY among other "nowtopias"), in order to reduce the atomization and dispersal of initiatives that hinder their capacity to scale up and present a solid alternative to the dominant economic paradigm.
Usage examples of "growl".
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.
The artwork is classic Americana, the rugs handwoven, and the canopy on the bed 249 With a clipped growl, she crushed the sheet in her -hand and sent it after the others.
The first amtracks growled ashore at 0750 hours, just twenty minutes after sunrise.
Only during extreme stress or fury did the animalistic growl vibrate in his chest in such a way.
His hands cupped it, clenching on the rounded curves as an animalistic growl rumbled in his chest.
He skipped nimbly out of reach of each threatening female--for such is the way of apes, if they be not in one of their occasional fits of bestial rage--and he growled back at the truculent young bulls, baring his canine teeth even as they.
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.
From twenty thousand savage throats rose the awful cries of battle, twenty thousand pairs of reins were loosed, and eighty thousand iron shod hoofs set the earth atremble as they thundered down upon the startled enemy, and from the heights above came the growl of the drums of The Wolf and the eerie howls of his painted horde.
Katy was uttering the mix of growl and howl that was her greeting somewhere in the dark shadows at the back of the building.
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.