Howl vs Expletive - What's the difference?
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The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
To utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.
* Drayton
* Shakespeare
To utter a sound expressive of pain or distress; to cry aloud and mournfully; to lament; to wail.
* Bible, Isaiah xiii. 6
To make a noise resembling the cry of a wild beast.
* Sir Walter Scott
To utter with outcry.
Serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.
* Hallam
* Barrow
Marked by expletives (phrase-fillers).
A profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.
(linguistics) A word without meaning added to fill a syntactic position.
(linguistics) A word that adds to the strength of a phrase without affecting its meaning; an intensifier.
Howl is a related term of expletive.
As nouns the difference between howl and expletive
is that howl is the protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound while expletive is a profane, vulgar term, notably a curse or obscene oath.As a verb howl
is to utter a loud, protracted, mournful sound or cry, as dogs and wolves often do.As an adjective expletive is
serving to fill up, merely for effect, otherwise redundant.howl
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- And dogs in corners set them down to howl .
- Methought a legion of foul fiends / Environ'd me about, and howled in my ears.
- Howl ye, for the day of the Lord is at hand.
- Wild howled the wind.
- to howl derision
expletive
English
(wikipedia expletive)Adjective
(en adjective)- Expletive imagery.
- Expletive phrases to plump his speech.