Reverse Dictionary: GROWL

ADJECTIVES
► BEARISH rough, rude, and uncouth. growling, surly → 1744
► GOWLY howling, growling; boisterous, stormy; sulky, scowling → 1876 Sc.
► GROWLSOME inclined to growl → 1882
► GROWLY subject to moroseness or ill temper expressed in growls → c1920 colloq.
► GURLY of a dog: given to growling → 1851 Sc.

NOUNS
► CHUR the subdued growl of a dog → 1880 obs.
► CURMURRING a low rumbling, growling, or murmuring sound → 1787 Sc.
► GOLDER the angry growl of a dog → 1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GROWLERY 1. a growling, rumbling, or grumbling → 1830
2. a place to ‘growl’ in; jocularly applied to a person’s private sitting room → 1852
► GURL a growl → 1755 obs. exc. Sc. obs.
► GURR a growl, a snarl → 1814 Sc.
► HABBER a snarl or growl; the act of snarling or growling like a dog → 1804 Sc. obs.
► OGGANNITION snarling, growling, grumbling → 1625 obs.
► RASING growling → c1440 obs.
► YIRR the growl of a dog → 1905 Sc. (Bk.)

NOUNS – PERSON
► GIRNER a growling, snarling person → 1854 Sc.
► YARRER a person or dog that growls or snarls → 1611 Eng. dial. obs.

VERBS
​► ARR of dogs: to snarl, to growl → 1768 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BRUZZ to growl as a bear (only used in vbl. noun ‘bruzzing’) → 1693 obs.
► CHUR to growl as a dog → 1880 obs.
► GARRE to growl, to snarl; to chatter, to chide; to chirp, to twitter → 1382 obs.
► GIVE A STEADY ONE to growl and curse → Amer. World War I sl.
► GOLDER to growl in a loud and threatening manner → 1808 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GOWL to howl, to yell, to cry, to whine; to scold, to growl, to threaten, to scowl → 1783 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► GROIN of animals: to grunt; to growl → 1300 obs.
► GRUNNY of animals: to grunt; to growl → c1340 obs.
► GURL to rumble, to growl → c1380 obs. exc. Sc.
► GURR to growl, to snarl → 1858 Sc.
► HABBER ► HUBBER to snarl; to growl; to make an inarticulate sound; to gobble, as of turkeys → 1903 Sc.
► JOWER to quarrel loudly; to scold; to growl, to grumble → 1767 Amer. dial.
► MARB to growl or grumble; to complain; to condemn unceasingly → 1936 Amer. dial.
► NARR of a dog: to snarl, to growl → 1509 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► RASE to be furious, to rage; of dogs: to growl or bark in rage → a1300 obs.
► ROIN to growl → LME obs.
► SNURL to grumble, to growl → 1948 Amer. dial.
► WAFFLE ► WEFFLE ► WHAFFLE ► WHEFFLE to bark as a small dog; to yap, to yelp, to growl; to bark in a suppressed manner → 1698 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► YAGGER of an animal: to growl threateningly → 1901 Amer. dial.
► YAR ► YARR to snarl or growl as or like a dog → 1611 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► YIRR to snarl or growl as a dog → 1820 Sc.