Find your perfect word!

Definition growl

Etymology

From Middle English groulen, grollen, gurlen (�of the bowels: to growl, rumble�), either possibly from Old French groler (variant of croler (�to be agitated, shake�)), grouler, grouller (�to growl, grumble�), from Frankish *grullen, *gruljan or from Old English gryllan, both from Proto-Germanic *gruljan? (�to make a sound; to growl, grumble, rumble�), from Proto-Indo-European *g?er- (�to make a noise; to mumble, murmur; to rattle; to grind; to rub, stroke�), probably ultimately imitative. The word is cognate with Middle Dutch grollen (�to make a noise; to croak, grumble, murmur; to be angry�) (modern Dutch grollen (�to grumble�)), German grollen (�to rumble; to be angry, bear ill will�), Old English grillan, griellan (�to provoke, offend; to gnash the teeth�). Compare grill.

The noun is derived from the verb.

Noun

growl (plural growls)

1. A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.
2. (by extension) The rumbling sound made by a person's stomach when hungry.
3. (by extension) An aggressive grumbling.
4. (jazz, by extension) A low-pitched rumbling sound produced with a wind instrument.

Verb

growl (third-person singular simple present growls, present participle growling, simple past and past participle growled)

1. (intransitive) To utter a deep guttural sound, as an angry animal; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound.
2. (intransitive, jazz) Of a wind instrument: to produce a low-pitched rumbling sound.
3. (intransitive, software) To send a user a message via the Growl software library.
4. (transitive) To express (something) by growling.
5. (transitive, jazz) To play a wind instrument in a way that produces a low-pitched rumbling sound.

Results 132 Words with the letters GROWL

You can also try words with the phrase GROWL, words starting with the letters GROWL, or words ending in the letters GROWL.

Favorites Searches

Words… ending with q, starting with q, starting with qa, starting with qo, with two letters, starting with x, starting with j, ending with j,

Some random searches: Words with the letters ID, Words with the letters AGDAI, Words with the letters IHSX, Words with the letters OHZ,