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Squall

noun

Sudden violent winds; often accompanied by precipitation.

verb

(past & past part. squalled; pres. part. squalling)

Make high-pitched, whiney noises. Synonyms: waul, wawl.

Utter a sudden loud cry. Synonyms: call, cry, holler, hollo, scream, shout, shout out, yell. "I yelled to her from the window but she couldn't hear me"

Blow in a squall.

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"Squall" Quotes from Famous Books

... your one chick has a glorious voice, and that it's a cruel shame she should be doing nothing better than teaching other people's chicks to squall, whether their voices are worth squalling with or not. Perhaps, though, mine mayn't be as remarkable an organ as we think; and even if you hadn't made me give up trying for light opera, because I received ...

— Set in Silver • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... to sleep, in case something should come up—a squall or the like. But I think I must have dropped off once or twice. I remember I heard something fiddling around in the galley, and I hollered 'Scat!' and everything was quiet again. I rolled over and lay on my left side, staring at that square of moonlight outside my ...

— Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) - Ghost Stories • Various

... by his dumb companion's pluck, Which caused the gnat to squall so, The sleeping man was greatly struck (And by the bowlder, also). In fact, his friends who idolized him ...

— Fables for the Frivolous • Guy Whitmore Carryl

... squalling on his own side, I'm thinking, John. I don't mane to squall, for one. I don't see why I need, with L400 a-year in my pocket, and a good wife to ...

— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope

... Pheia in Elis, they ravaged the country for two days and defeated a picked force of three hundred men that had come from the vale of Elis and the immediate neighbourhood to the rescue. But a stiff squall came down upon them, and, not liking to face it in a place where there was no harbour, most of them got on board their ships, and doubling Point Ichthys sailed into the port of Pheia. In the meantime ...

— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides

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