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squaller|ˈskwɔːlə(r)|
[f. squall v.1 + -er1.]
One who squalls or screams; one addicted to squalling; esp. a screaming child.
1687Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, Squawler, Celui. qui crie. 1760Ann. Reg. 220 Italian squallers oft disgrace the stage. 1796Hunter tr. St.-Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) II. 538, I don't mind nosegays, nor these little squallers [nightingales]. 1816M. W. Shelley in Dowden Life Shelley (1887) II. 62 Tell me, shall you be happy to have another little squaller? 1841Hewlett Parish Clerk I. 24 Mothers always sent for him to calm refractory squallers. 1872‘A. Merion’ Odd Echoes Oxf. 42 Fifty babies too, Warranted loud squallers. |