gowl

/ ɡaʊl /

noun

1. dialect.
   the substance often found in the corner of the eyes after sleep

Example Sentences

But it can also look like this: “Her heart and her hair that he loved to run his hands through her eyes he would gaze into her mouth he kissed her ears full of his words her lungs that breathed him her gowl she never let him into her guts too why not Bury it all burn it all who cared what was any of it without him.”

From Los Angeles Times

As Bogart, Roger Casey captures the actor’s tics but not his undercurrents; Catherine Gowl’s Bergman, racked by the filmmakers’ indecision over the movie’s ending, invites greater sympathy.

From New York Times

A single “gowl” came from his throat, as he was flung back off the sharp horns of the antelope.

From Project Gutenberg

The rising graves, and the mossy tomb-stones, and the white scattered bones that had escaped the sexton's eye, and glittered in the moonbeams, were equally neglected and overlooked; and no fear of fairy, ghost, or gnome, or gowl, entered where Love left no room but for his own engrossing sacrifices.

From Project Gutenberg

Then, uttering one deep, cavernous “gowl” it came straight for them.

From Project Gutenberg