What does knawvshawl mean?
Knawvshawl means (Ireland, intransitive) to mutter or complain sullenly.
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(Ireland, intransitive) 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.
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.
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.
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.
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Knawvshawl means (Ireland, intransitive) to mutter or complain sullenly.
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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.
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