prowlingn.

Brit.

/ˈpraʊlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpraʊ(wə)lɪŋ/

Forms: see prowl v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prowl v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < prowl v. + -ing suffix¹.

The action of prowl v.; an instance of this.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > in search of prey or plunder

prowling1632

prowl1803

α.

Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 415 Prollynge, or sekynge, perscrutacio, investigacio, scrutinium.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 259/1 Prolyng for a promocyon, ambition.

1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia l. 600 This causes swearing, and staring, proling and thefte.

1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxx. 339 Seauenth Henry..Of his Retriuers Proolings much (as well he might) repented.

1687 New Atlantis ii. 194 Such proling is unworthy our great Name.

1709 M. Astell Bart'lemy Fair 21 It would keep us from disturbing the Public, and damning our Souls, in prolling after somewhat Witty, and New, and out of the Way.

β. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iv. sig. Ev By prowlynge and lyenge, ye fryers wolde all haue.1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued l. 261 But here to shew what prowling means, What pranckes this pylfring sort Doo vse to gette syr Nummus with.1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 173 There would not be that insolency of Popish Recusants, that licence of Rogues and wanderers, that prouling of Officers.1702 J. Dennis Monument 2 The Great Soul that watch'd the Christian World, As the good faithful Shepherd does his Sheep Against the Prowlings of the nightly Wolf.1791 G. Carter Narr. Loss Grosvenor 44 Here they slept,..taking care first to make an unusual large fire,..the wild beasts being accustomed in their nocturnal prowlings to come here for water.1846 Ladies' Repository Dec. 359/2 Their hideous yell startled only the night owl in his prowlings.1898 B. Harte Tales of Trail & Town 214 The deputy had been awakened by the prowling of the fugitive around the house.1908 Daily News 6 July 6 All the odds and ends that he picks up on his prowlings along the coast.1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Y Behind the Scenes 328 The child..in prowling about the house had deliberately tried to gain entrance to the laboratory just because he was forbidden to go there.2002 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 30 Aug. a6 A Florida judge accused of peeping, trespassing and prowling while drunk.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

prowlingadj.

Brit.

/ˈpraʊlɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈpraʊ(wə)lɪŋ/

Forms: see prowl v. and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prowl v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < prowl v. + -ing suffix².

That prowls (in senses of the verb).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > [adjective]

creepinga1400

slyc1440

prowling1546

stealing1574

sneaking1590

cat-footed1598

soft-footed1603

surrepent1608

cat-likea1616

stealthya1616

grassant1659

sliving1661

creep-mouse1766

secret1768

slinking1841

pussy-footed1893

undercreeping1893

pussyfooting1926

slinky1951

society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > in search of prey or plunder

prowling1667

α.

1565 T. Drant Impii Cuiusdam Epigrammatis sig. d iv No golden Andwerpe, no of truth they seke no gold of thyne, A cheat of thanks for popysh priests to cram their prolling pine.

1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 137 Prolling pettifoggers.

1622 J. Taylor All Wks. (1630) 278 In this Kings reigne the lawlesse proling Pict..did the North part afflict.

1710 Life of Stillingfleet 116 The Patent 13th Jacobi to explain it, was called a Proling Patent and of no Effect in Law.

1732 J. Miller Vanelia ii. ii. 28 Like prolling Wolves, all the Night lie awake.

1798 F. H. Egerton Life T. Egerton 22 Prolling and common solicitors, that set dissention between man and man.

β. 1546 J. Bale First Examinacyon A. Askewe f. 30^v The popes owne wares as prowlynge and pelferynge as the pardons, with no lesse blasphemye.1584 R. Greene Morando sig. B.ii^v For seing their pereles Princesse a praie to suche a prowling Pyrate, they rusht into the Seas.?a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) iv. sig. H4 I scorn to make my state known to e're a prowling Beggar on ye all, we know your Brother has Gold, and 'tis that we come for.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 183 A prowling Wolfe, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey. 1760 J. Langhorne Job ii. 31 The fierce Fires of prowling Furies burn.1798 R. Bloomfield Spring in Farmer's Boy 158 Where prowling Reynard trod his nightly round.1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 263 The prowling thief enters the byre with a bag.1860 R. W. Emerson Behaviour in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 159 There are asking eyes, asserting eyes, prowling eyes, and eyes full of fate.1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 July 4/1 The system of prowling hansoms may be gainful to cabdrivers, and perhaps..convenient to the public.1914 Washington Post 14 Dec. 5/4 Calling the ‘gunman’ a prowling parasite in the community structure.1966 P. White Let. 27 May (1994) ix. 295 Our..window-sills marked by prowling cats.2000 I. Pattison Stranger here Myself (2001) ii. 72 Its..quaint cottage toilet where Gus and I were groped by a prowling workman on the fag end of his dinner break.

Derivatives

ˈprowlingly adv. rare.

ΚΠ

1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Prowlingly adv., in a prowling manner.

1998 Australian (Nexis) 10 Aug. 17 [The dancers] writhe and twist as if in agony until one by one they drop to all fours and drag themselves prowlingly off, like great cats.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	prowling
释义	prowlingn. Brit. /ˈpraʊlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpraʊ(wə)lɪŋ/ Forms: see prowl v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prowl v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < prowl v. + -ing suffix¹. The action of prowl v.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [noun] > without fixed aim or wandering > in search of prey or plunder prowling1632 prowl1803 α. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 415 Prollynge, or sekynge, perscrutacio, investigacio, scrutinium. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 259/1 Prolyng for a promocyon, ambition. 1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia l. 600 This causes swearing, and staring, proling and thefte. 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. xiv. lxxx. 339 Seauenth Henry..Of his Retriuers Proolings much (as well he might) repented. 1687 New Atlantis ii. 194 Such proling is unworthy our great Name. 1709 M. Astell Bart'lemy Fair 21 It would keep us from disturbing the Public, and damning our Souls, in prolling after somewhat Witty, and New, and out of the Way. β. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iv. sig. Ev By prowlynge and lyenge, ye fryers wolde all haue.1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued l. 261 But here to shew what prowling means, What pranckes this pylfring sort Doo vse to gette syr Nummus with.1632 R. Sanderson 12 Serm. 173 There would not be that insolency of Popish Recusants, that licence of Rogues and wanderers, that prouling of Officers.1702 J. Dennis Monument 2 The Great Soul that watch'd the Christian World, As the good faithful Shepherd does his Sheep Against the Prowlings of the nightly Wolf.1791 G. Carter Narr. Loss Grosvenor 44 Here they slept,..taking care first to make an unusual large fire,..the wild beasts being accustomed in their nocturnal prowlings to come here for water.1846 Ladies' Repository Dec. 359/2 Their hideous yell startled only the night owl in his prowlings.1898 B. Harte Tales of Trail & Town 214 The deputy had been awakened by the prowling of the fugitive around the house.1908 Daily News 6 July 6 All the odds and ends that he picks up on his prowlings along the coast.1932 ‘B. Ross’ Trag. of Y Behind the Scenes 328 The child..in prowling about the house had deliberately tried to gain entrance to the laboratory just because he was forbidden to go there.2002 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 30 Aug. a6 A Florida judge accused of peeping, trespassing and prowling while drunk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). prowlingadj. Brit. /ˈpraʊlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈpraʊ(wə)lɪŋ/ Forms: see prowl v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: prowl v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < prowl v. + -ing suffix². That prowls (in senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > stealthy action, stealth > stealthy movement > [adjective] creepinga1400 slyc1440 prowling1546 stealing1574 sneaking1590 cat-footed1598 soft-footed1603 surrepent1608 cat-likea1616 stealthya1616 grassant1659 sliving1661 creep-mouse1766 secret1768 slinking1841 pussy-footed1893 undercreeping1893 pussyfooting1926 slinky1951 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] > with no fixed aim or wandering > in search of prey or plunder prowling1667 α. 1565 T. Drant Impii Cuiusdam Epigrammatis sig. d iv No golden Andwerpe, no of truth they seke no gold of thyne, A cheat of thanks for popysh priests to cram their prolling pine. 1607 R. C. tr. H. Estienne World of Wonders 137 Prolling pettifoggers. 1622 J. Taylor All Wks. (1630) 278 In this Kings reigne the lawlesse proling Pict..did the North part afflict. 1710 Life of Stillingfleet 116 The Patent 13th Jacobi to explain it, was called a Proling Patent and of no Effect in Law. 1732 J. Miller Vanelia ii. ii. 28 Like prolling Wolves, all the Night lie awake. 1798 F. H. Egerton Life T. Egerton 22 Prolling and common solicitors, that set dissention between man and man. β. 1546 J. Bale First Examinacyon A. Askewe f. 30^v The popes owne wares as prowlynge and pelferynge as the pardons, with no lesse blasphemye.1584 R. Greene Morando sig. B.ii^v For seing their pereles Princesse a praie to suche a prowling Pyrate, they rusht into the Seas.?a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) iv. sig. H4 I scorn to make my state known to e're a prowling Beggar on ye all, we know your Brother has Gold, and 'tis that we come for.1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 183 A prowling Wolfe, Whom hunger drives to seek new haunt for prey. View more context for this quotation1760 J. Langhorne Job ii. 31 The fierce Fires of prowling Furies burn.1798 R. Bloomfield Spring in Farmer's Boy 158 Where prowling Reynard trod his nightly round.1842 J. Aiton Domest. Econ. (1857) 263 The prowling thief enters the byre with a bag.1860 R. W. Emerson Behaviour in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 159 There are asking eyes, asserting eyes, prowling eyes, and eyes full of fate.1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 10 July 4/1 The system of prowling hansoms may be gainful to cabdrivers, and perhaps..convenient to the public.1914 Washington Post 14 Dec. 5/4 Calling the ‘gunman’ a prowling parasite in the community structure.1966 P. White Let. 27 May (1994) ix. 295 Our..window-sills marked by prowling cats.2000 I. Pattison Stranger here Myself (2001) ii. 72 Its..quaint cottage toilet where Gus and I were groped by a prowling workman on the fag end of his dinner break. Derivatives ˈprowlingly adv. rare. ΚΠ 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Prowlingly adv., in a prowling manner. 1998 Australian (Nexis) 10 Aug. 17 [The dancers] writhe and twist as if in agony until one by one they drop to all fours and drag themselves prowlingly off, like great cats. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1440adj.1546
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