ululant

English

Etymology

Derived from Latin ululāns, present participle of ululō (“I howl”).

Adjective

ululant (comparative more ululant, superlative most ululant)

1. Howling; wailing.
   • 1660, anonymous author, THE RVMP ULULANT, OR PENITENCE per FORCE
   • 1924, H.P. Lovecraft, w:Harry Houdini, “Imprisoned With the Pharaohs”, in Weird Tales, volume 4, number 2:

     A fiendish and ululant corpse-gurgle or death-rattle now split the very atmosphere — the charnel atmosphere poisonous with naphtha and bitumen blasts — in one concerted chorus from the ghoulish legion of hybrid blasphemies.

   • 1927, Joseph Mailliard, “Additional Breeding Records of the Spotted and Saw-whet Owls in California”, in The Condor, volume 29, page 160:

     At the Bohemian Grove, Sonoma County, in some years its notes occasionally may be distinguished during intervals in the ululant chorus that resounds through the woods of a summer night — after the Bohemians have ceased ululating.

   • 2007, Rick Atkinson, The War in North Africa, 1942–1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy, page 181:

     With a rumble of hooves and an ululant war cry, the double column broke into a gallop the stone bridge just as the first German dive-bombers appeared overhead.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ululant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Catalan

Verb

ululant

1. gerund of ulular

French

Participle

ululant

1. present participle of ululer

Further reading

• “ululant”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Verb

ululant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of ululō