Wailing vs Ululate - What's the difference?
wailing | ululate |
A loud drawn out scream and howl.
*1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 5:
*:'For as soon as I heard Tewkesbury tell of screams and wailings in the air, and no one to be seen,' said Elzevir, 'I guessed that some poor soul had got shut in the vault, and was there crying for his life.
to howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy
* 1915 , Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
to produce a rapid and prolonged series of sharp noises with one's voice.
As verbs the difference between wailing and ululate
is that wailing is while ululate is to howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy.As a noun wailing
is a loud drawn out scream and howl.wailing
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(head)- Craig ran off wailing because his friend pulled a prank on him.
ululate
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Verb
(ululat)- Should I ever marry, Watson, I should hope to inspire my wife with some feeling which would prevent her from being walked off by a housekeeper when my corpse was lying within a few yards of her. It was badly stage-managed; for even the rawest investigators must be struck by the absence of the usual feminine ululation .