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発音

• IPA^(key): /ɹɔːl/
• 韻: -ɔːl

動詞

wrawl (三人称単数 現在形 wrawls, 現在分詞 wrawling, 過去形および過去分詞形 wrawled)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To cry like a cat; to waul.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Some were of dogs, that barked day and night, And some of cats, that wrawling still did cry.

   • mid 15th century, Thomas Hoccleve, The Plowman's Tale:

     Such successours [of Peter] yben to bolde, In winning all ther witte thei wral.

   • 1908, Will Sparks, Philopolis, volume 3, page 139:

     The fog horns groaned and groaned again, and siren whistled and wrawled.

   • 1601, Philemon Holland, The Historie of the World, Book VII:

     Man alone, poore wretch, she hath laid all naked upon the bare earth, even on his birth-day, to cry and wraule presently from the very first houre that he is borne into this worlde.

   • 1603, Plutarch, Philemon Holland, transl., Plutarch's Moralia:

     Howbeit, crying and wrawling as like as possibly might be to an infant new come into the world.

派生語

• wrawling (noun)

参照

• “wrawl”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.