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▪ I. wharl, v.|hwɑːl|
Also 5 warl-.
[Imitative.]
intr. To pronounce the letter r with a burr or guttural sound; = burr v.3 1. Hence wharl n. = burr n.6, ˈwharler, ˈwharling vbl. n.
c1440Promp. Parv. 37/2 Blaffoorde or warlare, traulus. (P. Traulus peccat in R, peccat in S sidunus.) Ibid. 523/2 Wha[r]lare, in speche. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 517 As for Carleton, as one would say, the husband⁓mens towne,..wherein..all in maner that are borne,..have an ilfavoured, untunable, and harsh maner of speech, fetching their words with very much adoe deepe from out of the throat, with a certaine kind of wharling. 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. ii. xviii. 92 The Tarrenteens, whose Tongues runne so much upon R, that they wharle much in pronunciation. 1656Duchess of Newcastle Natures Pict. etc. 376 Not stuttering, nor wharling in the throat, or speaking through the Nose. 1661J. Childrey Brit. Baconica 109, I have heard from some that were this Country [Leicestershire] men, that it is Breson that is the Town of the Wharlers, and not Carleton. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. (ed. 7) III. 251 The Northumberland R, or Wharle. 1825Jamieson.
▪ II. wharl(e
see quarrel n.1, n.2, whorl. |