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9 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun the yowling sound made by a cat in heat
verb utter shrieks, as of cats
originFrom 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).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- acrawl 11
- clawer 11
- curlew 11
- crawl 10
- arcuate 9
- tulwar 9
- claw 9
- clew 9
- craw 9
- crew 9
- waac 9
- acater 8