Citations:whewl
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English citations of whewl
- IPA(key): /hwjuː(ə)l/, /wjuː(ə)l/; (wine/whine) IPA(key): /ʍjuː(ə)l/
- To cry plaintively; moan, whine.
- a. 1560, The Aeneid of Thomas Phaer and Thomas Twyne (critical edition published 1987), page 222:
- […] while whewling sad he sat, and long lamenting sang for loue
- 1567, Golding, The XV Bookes of P. Ovidius Naso, Entytuled Metamorphosis, page 87:
- […] lamenting for his sonnes mischaunce with whewling in the Aire […]
- 1856, Pishey Thompson, The History and Antiquities of Boston, page 730: "Whewl, or Whewt (to).—To whistle in a slight degree, like a young bird beginning to sing."