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单词 whurl
释义

whurlv.

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s whorle, 1500s whyrle, 1600s wherl.
Etymology: Imitative.
Obsolete.
intransitive. To make a roaring or rumbling noise; to purr, as a cat; to snarl or growl, as a dog. (Cf. wharl v., whirr v. 3a, 3b.)
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the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > roar or bellow
roarOE
bellOE
yellOE
romya1325
droun1340
bellow1486
shouta1500
whurl1530
rout1554
fream1575
brill1863
the world > animals > by noises > voice or sound made by animal > make sound [verb (intransitive)] > snarl or growl
garre1382
hurr1398
roina1450
gnar1496
snar1530
whurl1530
snarl1590
gnarl1596
grumble1608
yarr1611
whirr1706
growl1719
yirra1796
gargle1861
grrra1963
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > roar or bellow [verb (intransitive)]
bellowc1000
roarOE
routc1400
rummish?a1500
rerea1525
hurl1530
whurl1530
bullerc1550
broll1660
gurl1790
snore1823
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Felidae (feline) > felis domesticus (cat) > [verb (intransitive)] > purr
whurl1530
curl?1533
purr1620
purla1641
thruma1810
the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > dog > [verb (intransitive)] > growl
girnc1440
rase1440
narr1509
snar1530
whurl1530
arr1600
yarr1611
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 781/2 This wynde whorleth so I can nat here.
1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. v. f. 81v Ye vse of the eares could not serue for one to receiue counsel..at an other, the wynd whyrlid so amonges the leaues.
1607 T. Middleton Revengers Trag. iv. sig. G3 He whurles and rotles in the throate.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 105 How [the cat] whurleth with her voyce.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Gronder, to whurle, whurre, yarre, like a dog that is angrie.

Derivatives

whurl n. Obsolete = wharl n. at wharl v. Derivatives.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > speech sound by manner > [noun] > sonant > liquid > trill > burr
wharling1610
rattle1743
wharl1748
burr1760
whurl1797
birr1837
uvula trill1869
1797 Encycl. Brit. XIII. 112/1 The commonalty are..distinguished by a kind of shibboleth or whurle, being a particular way of pronouncing the letter R, as if they hawked it up from the wind-pipe, like the cawing of rooks.
whurling n. and adj. Obsolete
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > [noun]
reirdc1330
bellowing1393
roaringa1398
routinga1425
whurling1495
rummishing?a1500
roara1522
boation1646
intonation1658
fremitus1820
bellow1827
fremescence1837
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > roaring or bellowing > [adjective]
crying1398
roaringc1425
whurling1495
reirding1591
routinga1609
bellowing1619
bombardical1645
rummishing1653
polyphloisboian1824
polyphloisboiotic1843
polyphloisboiic1863
polyphloisbic1915
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xi. ii In ye eeres wynde makith whystlyng and whorlinge [Bodl. MS. trongelinge] and ryngynge.
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. ii. f. 58 The sea, raged and rored..with a horrible whurlinge.
1625 in W. Foster Eng. Factories India 1624–9 (1909) 51 The flying shoot..macking such a wherling noyse in the ayere.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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