growl
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growl englanniksi
A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.
(quote-journal)|location=New Haven, Conn.|publisher=Published by Thomas H. Pease; printed by T. J. Stafford|month=June|year=1857|volume=XXII|issue=VII|page=287|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=Irq-BwX2TfgC&pg=PA287|oclc=504152729|passage=Hardly anything is more intensely disagreeable to one walking along the street, than to hear near his path a low savage growl—the expression of a surly dog's opinion and purpose.
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A similar sound made by a human.
An aggressive grumbling.
(RQ:Dickens Christmas Carol)
(quote-journal)|month=July|year=1864|volume=XX|issue=1 (number 115 overall)|page=44|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=8aLQAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA44|column=1|oclc=7389228|passage=The Welsh farmer, strong, broad-shouldered and blue-eyed, acknowledged Willie's presence by an unintelligible ejaculation which sounded very much like a growl, and with not very cheerful hospitality pushed a chair towards him. (..) The farmer swallowed his broth in huge spoonfuls, alternating with growls, (..)
(quote-book)|year=2014|section=part I (London)|page=44|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=0E6wOHbFFBkC&pg=PA44|isbn=978-1-4516-2850-0|passage=One of the shows we saw was (w) at the Finsbury Park Astoria, now the Rainbow Theatre. It was one of my all-time favorite shows, the Captain an outrageous character who defied all bounds of middle-class taste with his Delta-blues growl and made-up language.
A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a instrument.
To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to forth an angry, grumbling sound.
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(RQ:L'Estrange Fables of Aesop) They go out however, as there is Occaſion, and Hunt and Growle for Company; but at the ſame time, they give the Sign out of their Maſters hand, hold Intelligence with the Enemy; and Make uſe of their Power and Credit to Worry Honeſter Men them Themſelves.
(quote-book)|chapter=Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite. Song 16.|title=Dr. Watts’ Divine & Moral Songs(nb...)|location=London|publisher=Printed for & sold by the author,(nb...)|year=1806|page=18|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=en5H8zXmFccC&pg=PA18|oclc=367866269|passage=Let bears and lions growl and fight, / Let bears and lions growl and fight, / For 'tis their nature too, / For 'tis their nature too.
(quote-book)|series=Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors|seriesvolume=CCCXXX|location=Paris|publisher=Baudry’s European Library,(nb...); and Stassin et Xavier,(nb...)|year=1841|page=225|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=ildlAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA225|oclc=1016770110|passage="All's for the worst" is a very common motto, and under its influence there are thousands who growl when they go to bed, and growl still louder when they get up; who growl at their breakfast, who growl at their dinner, who growl at their supper, and who growl between meals. Discontent is written in every feature of their visage; (..)
(quote-journal)|date=25 April 1868|volume=41|issue=2078|page=482|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=tdU9AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA482|column=2|issn=0038-6952|oclc=317324031|passage=Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby|Lord Derby growled,—growling especially at Mr. Ewart Gladstone|William Ewart Gladstone,—and the Longley|Archbishop of Canterbury growled, and the Wilberforce|Bishop of Oxford growled, and the Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath|Marquis of Bath (a good Conservative) growled, but ''he'' (the Marquis) growled at the Government rather than at the Bill.
(quote-book) April waited for the dog to settle down. Instead, his growling grew deeper.
Of a instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
(quote-book) He plays his false fingers. Chokes the trumpet. He is naked. This is naked jazz. O-bop-she-bam. Never lying. Telling it like it is.
(quote-book) "used to growl all night long, playing gutbucket on his horn. That was when we decided to forget all about the sweet music."
To send a user a message via the (software)|Growl software library.
(quote-journal)|year=1853|volume=III|page=345|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=DWQEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA345|oclc=41337867|passage=Bastane, as he entered, growled an invective, while he sullenly expressed his discontent at an unexpected call and additional labour.
To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.
(quote-book) Gilmore (musician)|John Gilmore would take up his tenor and growl a keening march, Danny Thompson stab and worry with a flute, (w) leave his big conga and mount the temple of keyboards for a ritual parenthesis of chromatic zig-zags and electro-howls.
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