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caterwauling

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cat·er·waul  (ktr-wôl)
intr.v. cat·er·wauled, cat·er·waul·ing, cat·er·wauls
1. To cry or screech like a cat in heat.
2. To make a shrill, discordant sound.
3. To have a noisy argument.
n.
A shrill, discordant sound.

[Middle English *caterwawlen : *cater, tomcat; akin to Low German kater + wawlen, wrawlen, to yowl (ultimately of imitative origin).]
Translations
caterwauling [ˈkætəˌwɔːlɪŋ] N [of person] → chillidos mpl, aullidos mpl; [of cat] → maullidos mpl
caterwauling
nGejaule nt
caterwauling [ˈkætəˌwɔːlɪŋ] nmiagolio
caterwauling [ˈkætəˌwɔːlɪŋ] nmiagolio


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or what could he expect but to find his mistress agreeably engaged with a rival on his return, and his serenade, as they call it, as little regarded as the caterwauling of a cat in the gutter?
It caught him full on the end of his nose, and he went straight up in the air, all four feet of him, roaring and caterwauling, what of the hurt and surprise.
And then there came, mingling with his half-formed dreams, a most mel- ancholy caterwauling.
 
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