snarling
Appearance
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]snarling
- growling, having a snarl.
- Synonym: (now rare) latrant
- The snarling dog scared me away without ever opening its mouth.
Noun
[edit]snarling (plural snarlings)
- The act of producing a snarl or growl.
- 1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), pages 144–145:
- When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings. But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.
Translations
[edit]Verb
[edit]snarling
- present participle and gerund of snarl