Meaning

2 senses

  1. A yowling.

    the yowling sound made by a cat in heat

  2. A noisy quarrel.

    Katzenjammer

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Would you stop that caterwauling?

    ruТы бы не мог прекратить этот кошачий концерт? — odexed

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  2. There will be a lot of infighting and caterwauling in this place in order to try to move in that direction.

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Translations

2 languages
Deutsch
By meaning 1
noisy quarrel, particularly of cats:

Origin

From Middle English caterwrawen, from cater (“cat”) + wrawen, wrawlen (“cry like a cat”),

From Middle English caterwrawen, from cater (“cat”) + wrawen, wrawlen (“cry like a cat”), equivalent to cat + waul. Compare Low German katerwaulen (“to cry like a cat”) and Middle Dutch cater (“tomcat”) (Dutch kater).

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Forms

plural: caterwauls
Singularcaterwaul
Pluralcaterwauls

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
catercaterercaterpillarcatfishcatgirlcathartic
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