Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The cry of a loon. It is a sort of wild moan somewhat resembling the howl of a wolf.

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Examples

  • But of course some of the malchicks living in 18A had, as was to be expected, em - bellished and decorated the said big painting with handy pencil and ballpoint, adding hair and stiff rods and dirty bal - looning slovos out of the dignified rots of these nagoy (bare, that is) cheenas and vecks.

    Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010

  • Just wish the whole thing had kicked off on the Shuttle with all three looning around in gravity-free slo-mo.

    "A wig, a trenchcoat, adult diapers, BB gun, a steel mallet, some rubber tubing, and garbage bags." Ann Althouse 2007

  • By looning at the photo of Roger L SImmon it appears that he is also a pevert.

    Think Progress » Pajamas Media, Instapundit Facilitate Outing Of Foley Victim 2006

  • This was his looning — perhaps the wildest sound that is ever heard here, making the woods ring far and wide.

    Walden 2004

  • By this time Spider had started looning about, doing mad dancing in the middle of the dance floor.

    Mates, Dates: Besties: Cathy Hopkins 2002

  • This was his looning, -- perhaps the wildest sound that is ever heard here, making the woods ring far and wide.

    A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV. Various 1891

  • This of the loon -- I do not mean its laugh, but its looning -- is a long-drawn call, as it were, sometimes singularly human to my ear, -- hoo-hoo-ooooo, like the hallooing of a man on a very high key, having thrown his voice into his head.

    The Maine Woods 1858

  • This was his looning — perhaps the wildest sound that is ever heard here, making the woods ring far and wide.

    Walden~ Chapter 12 (historical) 1854

  • This was his looning, -- perhaps the wildest sound that is ever heard here, making the woods ring far and wide.

    Walden, or Life in the woods 1854

  • This was his looning -- perhaps the wildest sound that is ever heard here, making the woods ring far and wide.

    Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839

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