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What is the noun for growl?

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growler
  1. A person, creature or thing that growls.
  2. (historical, slang) A cab with four wheels.
  3. A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
  4. (Canada) A kind of jug used to carry beer (in current usage, a 2-liter or 64-ounce container with or without a handle; sometimes extended to similarly shaped 32-ounce jug, but not bottles).
  5. (dialect, Britain, Yorkshire) A pork pie.
  6. (US, dialect) A fish of the perch family, abundant in North American rivers, so named from the sound it emits.
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  8. Examples:
    1. “John's constant grumbling and whining about trivial matters earned him the reputation of being a growler among his coworkers.”
      “Just beneath the surface, out of sight of the watch, she had hit what is referred to in sailing circles as a growler.”
      “At sea, a collision with an iceberg, a growler or a UFO is the nightmare of solo yachtsmen.”
growl
  1. The deep, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal; an aggressive grumbling.
  2. The sound made by a hungry stomach.
  3. (slang, archaic) A four-wheeled cab.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “As soon as he realized that I wasn't listening to him, he let out an angry growl and tore the page out of his file before tearing it into little pieces.”
      “I could hear the growl of the trucks turning into the driveway as they shifted gears.”
growling
growliness
  1. The state or quality of being growly.
growlings
  1. plural of growling
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Thaka and Numgo and Gunto, disturbed by the growlings of the two young bulls, looked up half apathetic, half interested.”
growlers
  1. plural of growler
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Yet despite this jollier presence, he demonstrated yet again that he's one of pop music's first-class growlers.”
      “In the spring and early summer, the additional hazard of icebergs and growlers were often a distinct possibility.”
      “Like icebergs, growlers are a major hazard to seagoing craft.”
growls
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