snarling

snarling

1. Growling, having a snarl.

   Synonym: (now rare) latrant

   The snarling dog scared me away without ever opening its mouth.

   • 2025 September 27, “Inside the Trump Administration’s Push to Prosecute James Comey”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:

     Mr. Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July after an adviser stoked his snarling impatience over the slow pace of Justice Department investigations.

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snarling (plural snarlings)

1. The act of producing a snarl or growl.
   • 1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), pages 144–145:

     When dogs fight, there are usually preliminaries to the actual combat — snarlings and bristlings and stiff-legged struttings. But White Fang learned to omit these preliminaries.

snarling

1. present participle and gerund of snarl