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- verb Present participle of
waul .
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Examples
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"It's almost beyond belief apart from the fact that I have secretly suspected the Welsh of evil doings ever since they spawned the cater-wauling Charlotte Church."
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Were we to kill off the wauling cats which make such a mess of the garden, the neighbourhood would lose its best garbingers.
A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900
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Why, you monkeys, you, what a cater-wauling do you keep! has he not given you rhymes and verses and tricks?
Every Man in His Humor Ben Jonson 1605
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It is a well-known fact that when one's ears prick up at night and find the slightest noise an obstacle to slumber, after much tossing and turning, and some imprecating, tired Nature will finally succumb from sheer exhaustion: she even conquers the howling of dogs holding converse with the moon and the cater-wauling of enamored cats.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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Were I in his place, I would have them all drowned for a litter of wauling kittens. "
The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest 1893
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