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Definitions: CATERWAULING |
CATERWAULINGNoun1. The cry of cats; a harsh, disagreeable noise or cry like the cry of cats. Personal pronoun & verb & noun1. Of Caterwaul |
Date "CATERWAULING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1509. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Caterwauling The wawl or wrawl of cats, the er being either a plural, similar to "childer" (children), or a corrupted genitive. "What a caterwauling do you keep here!" - Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, ii. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | CATERWAULING. Going out in the night in search of intrigues, like a cat in the gutters. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Endearment | Courtship, wooing, suit, addresses, the soft impeachment; lovemaking; serenading; caterwauling. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: CATERWAULING |
| Specialty definitions using "CATERWAULING": Cat-call, CATERWAULING. (references) |
| "CATERWAULING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "CATERWAULING" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 80% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (singular) | 20% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "CATERWAULING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | katzenmusik (cacophony, din, racket). (various references) | ||||
Hungarian | nyivákolás (caterwaul, caterwauls, yowl). (various references) | ||||
Manx | piarghanee (caterwaul), peeagheree (caterwaul, oestrum, rutting). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | aterwaulingcay | ||||
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"CATERWAULING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caterhauling. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-i-l-n-r-t-u-w" | |
-2 letters: lacerating, laureating, retinacula, ulcerating. | |
-3 letters: analgetic, antiglare, antiulcer, cartilage, caterwaul, ciguatera, cingulate, clearwing, curtilage, granulate, granulite, graticule, lecturing, neuralgia, neuralgic, relucting. | |
-4 letters: acauline, aerating, agential, alerting, alginate, altering, analcite, angelica, angulate, antalgic, antiwear, anuretic, argental, argentic, auntlier, canulate, carinate, catering, clarinet, clearing, cleating, craaling, craniate, crawling, creating, cultigen, curating, eructing, geranial, glaciate, integral. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 41 54 45 52 57 41 55 4C 49 4E 47 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- - . .-. .--. .- ..- .-.. .. -. --. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000001 01010100 01000101 01010010 01010111 01000001 01010101 01001100 01001001 01001110 01000111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C A T E R W A U L I N G |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0041 0054 0045 0052 0057 0041 0055 004C 0049 004E 0047 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)373554395257355546434841 |
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