How to pronounce yowl

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What yowl means

verb

To let out a long, loud, wailing cry

In a sentence: The cat yowled outside the door until we let her in.

Where it comes from: It comes from an Old Norse word meaning to howl or bellow. It may have picked up the y at the start from the word yell.

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