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单词 gnar
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gnarv.

/nɑː/
Forms: Also Middle English gnare, 1500s gnarr(e, 1800s gnarr; see also nar int.
Etymology: Onomatopoeic: compare Middle Low German gnarren, Middle Dutch gnerren, gnorren to grunt; German knarren, knirren to creak, knurren (Danish knurre, Swedish knorra) to grumble, snarl; also Old English gnyrran (Wulfstan 138/29; compare gnyrende, rendering Latin stridens, Sax. Leechd. III. 210).
intransitive. To snarl, growl. (Cf. gnarl v.1)
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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > snarl or growl
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1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) i. lviii. 100 He shall gnasche or gnare with his teeth.
a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) 297 For and this curre do gnar, They must stande all a far, To holde vp their hande at the bar.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie li. 305 Let those mastife dogs barke and gnarre as much as they list.
1630 J. Taylor Motto in Wks. ii. 44/2 Those will in their kennels lye And gnar and snarle, and grumble secretly.
1737 Albania 196 No lion here the traveller assails With midnight roar, nor ruthless panther gnars.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Gnarr, to growl, as a dog.
figurative and in extended use.1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xcvi. 147 A thousand wants Gnarr at the heels of men.1880 T. E. Webb tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust iv. xvi When the storm in the forest roars and gnarrs.

Derivatives

ˈgnarring n.
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1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 130 Like a snarling curr, that in his gnarring snatcheth at the taile.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xiii. 107 He..was..surrounded..with the barking of Currs..gnarring [printed guarring] of Puppies.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. iv. 209 With preternatural gnarring, growling and screeching..there began..this song.
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