different between tagalog vs caterwaul

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?ta?alok]

Noun

tagalog m

1. Tagalog (language)

Synonyms

• tagalština

Danish

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog, the Tagalog language, native language of the Philippines.

Finnish

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog (language)

Declension

French

Noun

tagalog m (uncountable)

1. Tagalog, the Tagalog language, native language of the Philippines.

Further reading

• “tagalog” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Icelandic

Noun

tagalog

1. Tagalog (language)

Portuguese

Noun

tagalog m (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of tagalo

English

Etymology

From Middle English caterwrawen, from cater (“cat”) + wrawen, wrawlen (“cry like a cat”), equivalent to cat +? waul. Compare Low German katerwaulen (“to cry like a cat”) and Middle Dutch cater (“tomcat”) (Dutch kater).

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ca?ter?waul
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæt.?.w??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?kæt.?.w?l/
• (cot–caught merger, Inland Northern American) IPA^(key): /?kæt.?.w?l/

Verb

caterwaul (third-person singular simple present caterwauls, present participle caterwauling, simple past and past participle caterwauled)

1. (intransitive) To cry as cats in heat; to make a harsh, offensive noise.
2. (intransitive) To have a noisy argument, like cats.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:argument

Related terms

• caterwauler

Translations

Noun

caterwaul (plural caterwauls)

1. A yowling.
2. A noisy quarrel.

Translations

Further reading

• caterwaul in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.