howling

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of producing howls.
    — The howling of wolves is haunting at night.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of howl form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — "They have turned a great old English institution into a shameful clip-joint. It's a shuddering, howling tragedy."
形容词 adj.
  1. That howls. not-comparable
    — howling wind
  2. That causes one to howl or feel like howling; deeply distressing. not-comparable
    — Ah! the death of the poor, the empty entrails, howling hunger, the animal appetite that leads one with chattering teeth to fill one's stomach with beastly refuse in this great Paris, so bright and golden!
  3. Used as an intensifier colloquial,not-comparable
    — Those were days that I had success, for I could see it, and feel it, and taste it, and my patrons caught the contagion and we had a howling success .

词形变化

howlings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
howlingly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English howlynge, howelynge, equivalent to howl + -ing (gerund suffix).
词源 2
From Middle English howlinge, howlynge, equivalent to howl + -ing (present participle ending).
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