"Caterwauling" refers to a very loud, unpleasant, and screechy noise made by animals or sometimes humans.
Sentences with «caterwauling»
Perhaps you're familiar with the distressed caterwauling sounds that female cats in heat make while calling a mate. (catster.com)
They might not know it yet, but all three have become sponges, soaking up every last drop of their surroundings: funk records, police brutality, violence on their TVs, violence across the street, governmental caterwauling over «extreme» music (spearheaded by Tipper Gore's «Parents Music Resource Center»), and — most importantly — hip - hop going mainstream. (cinemixtape.com)
And I started taking April 29 much more seriously (shocking an usher when, on the 50th anniversary of my baptism, I went to the church where the deed had been done — amidst great caterwauling on my part, I'm reliably informed — and asked him to help me find the baptismal font, which had been moved in a post-conciliar wreckovation, so that I could kiss it). (firstthings.com)