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  • verb Present participle of squawl.

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Examples

  • In a later edition, a printer also included a poem called A Panegyrick Upon Cundums – a hymn to the wondrous qualities of prophylactics, praising not only their contraceptive powers "Unknown big Belly, and squawling Brat" but also their usefulness in the quest for what we would now call safer sex.

    Poetry bestseller boasts saucy secret in the bookbinding … 18th century porn 2011

  • I clutched it, and as he jumped back to his loophole I set my teeth and spilled half the contents on my neck, squawling to wake the dead at the burning agony of it.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • As we leave Michael, he is holding his adorable baby, who is squawling.

    'American Idol': And then there were three 2010

  • You're the one jumping up and down and squawling about our attitudes and our pathologies - always ours.

    Who Knows What The Clintons Are Thinking? Only The Clintons Do. 2009

  • He's a big squawling baby who can't wean himself off that bottle, in every sense.

    Kurtz: The Boys On The Bus? Who Needs 'Em? 2009

  • He bears no more resemblance to the squawling newborn that he was four months ago than he does to his any of his sister's toy dolls.

    Archive 2008-09-14 2008

  • He bears no more resemblance to the squawling newborn that he was four months ago than he does to his any of his sister's toy dolls.

    Forever Young 2008

  • Once inside, the shelter, which doubles as a gym, is bright and full of muddy children, their sodden parents, elderly folk towing oxgyn tanks, barking dogs, and and squawling infants.

    Big Time in Pork City delagar 2008

  • Once inside, the shelter, which doubles as a gym, is bright and full of muddy children, their sodden parents, elderly folk towing oxgyn tanks, barking dogs, and and squawling infants.

    Archive 2008-04-01 delagar 2008

  • Months later it hatched – lucky that I was there that day to feed the mewling, squawling hatchling chopped meat and warm milk.

    Cat Rambo catrambo 2007

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