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Squall sb.2. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2024. Squall sb.2 Also 8 squawl. [f. SQUALL v.1]

1   1.  A discordant or violent scream; a loud, harsh cry.

2 1709.  W. King, Misc., 518. Betty distorts her Face with hideous Squawl, And Mouth of a foot wide begins to bawl.

3 1768–74.  Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1834), II. 443. Very bad music, badly executed, being rather roars or squalls than songs.

4 1782.  Wolcot (P. Pindar), Odes to R.A.’s, xiii. Wks. 1812, I. 42. My lovely strangers, one and all, Gave, all at once, a diabolic squawl.

5 1821.  Clare, Vill. Minstr., I. 94. The crowing pheasant … Betrays his lair with awkward squalls.

6 1833.  Ht. Martineau, Manch. Strike, vi. 69. The passing squalls of the baby, who, however, allowed himself to be quickly hushed.

7 1883.  Stevenson, in Century Mag., XXVII. 189/2. Away up the cañon, a wild-cat welcomed us with three discordant squalls.

8   b.  The action or habit of squalling or talking in a shrill voice.

9 1755.  Connoisseur, No. 51, ¶ 3. He was determined, that the babe … should be put out to nurse,—he hated the squall of children.

10 1825.  Creevey, in C. Papers (1904), II. 87. Altho’ these young ladies … have all more or less of the quality squall, yet their manners are particularly correct.

11   † 2.  Cant. (See quot.) Obs.

12 1725.  New Cant. Dict., Squawl, a Voice; as, The Cove as a bien Squawl, the Fellow has a good Voice.

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