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单词 pheal
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phealn.

Forms: 1800s pheale, 1800s pheeal.
Origin: An imitative or expressive formation.
Etymology: Imitative. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (fī·ăl) /ˈfiːəl/.
Obsolete. rare.
The cry of the jackal when hunting.
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1879 F. T. Pollok Sport Brit. Burmah I. 117 The peculiar cry of the jackal, which is generally called the ‘pheale’, so unlike the unearthly nightly howl of that animal.
1895 R. Kipling Second Jungle Bk. 176 It was what they call in the Jungle the Pheeal, a kind of shriek that the jackal gives when he is hunting behind a tiger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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