knawvshawl
knawvshawl verb: to mutter or complain sullenly.
Verb
knawvshawl (third-person singular simple present knawvshawls, present participle knawvshawling, simple past and past participle knawvshawled)
- to mutter or complain sullenly
- On the way home in the trap, that night, the uncle started to cnawvshawl. "Houl', you hoor," said Dan, "there's a woman as has been watching your nephew this while will be rightly annoyed now that he's promised.1984, John B. Keane, Man of the triple name, →ISBN, page 75
- Suzanne Vega stereotyped 'Calypso' as we knawvshawled about our families (our begetters and begotten, no worse than the next, whose umbilical cords we're still spancelled to) before we went on to our respective wanderings.1997, The Irish review, numbers 20-21, page 123
knawvshawl meaning in Bengali
knawvshawl in Bengali
- বিড়বিড় করা, অসন্তোষ প্রকাশ করা
Examples of knawvshawl in a sentence
- Secured with ballast of repartee, we drifted past murky, shallow waters of literary knawvshawl and found ourselves navigating a course I can't recall we ever traversed.1999, “The Leper and Civil Disobedience”, in Fortnight, numbers 376-390:
- Nothing would do her but that the fort should be levelled, and she was ever grumbling and knawvshawling about it, if it wasn't about something else.2000, Rory O'Connor, Gander at the gate, →ISBN, page 244:
Forms of knawvshawl
| third-person singular present | knawvshawls |
|---|---|
| present participle | knawvshawling |
| past participle | knawvshawled |
| past | knawvshawled |
| alternative form | cnawvshawl |
| alternative form | knauvshawl |
Origin of knawvshawl
From Irish cnáimhseáil (“grumbling, complaining”).
Questions about knawvshawl
- What does knawvshawl mean?
- Knawvshawl means to mutter or complain sullenly.
- What is knawvshawl in Bengali?
- Knawvshawl in Bengali is বিড়বিড় করা, অসন্তোষ প্রকাশ করা. See Knawvshawl meaning in Bengali.
- How do you use knawvshawl in a sentence?
- Secured with ballast of repartee, we drifted past murky, shallow waters of literary knawvshawl and found ourselves navigating a course I can't recall we ever traversed.
- What part of speech is knawvshawl?
- Knawvshawl is a verb.
- What is the past tense of knawvshawl?
- The past tense of knawvshawl is knawvshawled.
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