Citations:whewl

English citations of whewl

IPA^(key): /hwjuː(ə)l/, /wjuː(ə)l/; (without the wine–whine merger) 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."