snarling

snarling

1. growling, having a snarl.

   Synonym: (now rare) latrant

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

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