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What is the noun for howl?

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howler
  1. That which howls, especially an animal which howls, such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
  2. A person hired to howl at a funeral
  3. A painfully obvious mistake.
  4. A hilarious joke.
  5. A bitterly cold day
  6. A heavy fall, literally or figuratively
  7. A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler, e.g. "Our hansom came a howler"; compare: come a cropper)
  8. A tremendous lie
  9. A fashionably but extravagantly overdressed man, a "howling swell"
  10. A calamity howler is "one that makes dismal predictions of impending disaster"
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  12. Examples:
    1. “The email I sent to my boss contained a howler, as I mistakenly attached a cat video instead of the important report.”
      “The group got to witness pure nature and animals like toucans, howler monkeys, tarantulas and various lizards.”
      “Native animals range from the jaguar and howler monkey to the manatee, and there are more than 290 species of birds.”
howl
  1. The protracted, mournful cry of a dog or a wolf, or other like sound.
  2. A prolonged cry of distress or anguish; a wail.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “If an actor's raw howl of grief affects an audience with primal power, why dilute or blunt that experience with words?”
      “A wolf's howl rang through the forest, and the forest grew darker.”
      “The new tariff on sugar houses recently promulgated has caused a howl of dissatisfaction from some of the planters in the vicinity of New Orleans.”
howling
howlings
  1. plural of howling
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Strange gruntings and howlings disturbed our sleep but we awoke to blazing sunshine.”
      “In the distance a coyote was making the night hideous with his demoniacal howlings.”
      “In spite of his inclinations, the drama was of man and woman, a genetic dissonance so like the marital howlings one could hear floating up from the courtyard or creeping up and down the rusty fire escapes.”
howlers
  1. plural of howler
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It is full of howlers and is, in fact, an embarrassment to Scottish culture.”
      “He could produce some howlers, and nothing he wrote could necessarily be believed.”
      “Anachronisms and nautical howlers bombard the reader like spindrift in a Force 10 gale.”
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