howling
noun
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Pronunciation: /ˈhaʊlɪŋ/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English howlinge, howlynge, equivalent to howl + -ing (present participle ending).
- That howls.
“howling wind”
“A few minutes later a howling mob was at the door.”
- That causes one to howl or feel like howling; deeply distressing.
“Ah! the death of the poor, the empty entrails, howling hunger, the animal appetite that leads one with chattering teeth to fill one's stomach with beastly refuse in this great Paris, so bright and golden!”
“Some agency must control the allocation of frequencies or all our airways would be a howling chaos: but there is no rational justification for the kind of regulation that the Federal Communications Commission proposes for our industry.”
- Used as an intensifier
“Those were days that I had success, for I could see it, and feel it, and taste it, and my patrons caught the contagion and we had a howling success .”
“Boy, what a howling triumph if we should find our way out of here and go walking into Stark House by night !”
name
Etymology: From a medieval diminutive of the given name Hugh.
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
noun
Etymology: From Middle English howlynge, howelynge, equivalent to howl + -ing (gerund suffix).
- The act of producing howls.
“The howling of wolves is haunting at night.”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English howlinge, howlynge, equivalent to howl + -ing (present participle ending).
- present participle and gerund of howl
“"They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."”