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howlet
[ hou-lit ]
noun
, British Dialect.
- an owl or owlet.
howlet
/ ˈhaʊlɪt /
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of howlet1
C15: diminutive of howle owl
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Example Sentences
Leaving Howlet and Meadows grinning at a highly improbable adventure, he slapped the boy on the shoulder.
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It would have been nice to see Meadows wind up rich, or for Howlet to become mayor of the dome, but what could I do?
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Better if he sate in a barn and helped madge-howlet to catch mice!
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And I heard close at hand the call of an owl, as like the whimper of a child as ever howlet's vesper mocked.
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"But I was not thinking of going there to-night," she added, and the howlet in the bush beside me hooted at my ignominy.
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