[f. SQUALL v.1 + -ER1.] One who squalls or screams; one addicted to squalling; esp. a screaming child.

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1687.  Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., II. Squawler, Celui … qui crie.

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1760.  Ann. Reg., 220. Italian squallers oft disgrace the stage.

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1796.  Hunter, trans. St. Pierre’s Stud. Nat. (1799), II. 538. I don’t mind nosegays, nor these little squallers [nightingales].

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1816.  Mrs. Shelley, in Dowden, Life Shelley (1887), II. 62. Tell me, shall you be happy to have another little squaller?

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1841.  J. T. Hewlett, Parish Clerk, I. 24. Mothers always sent for him to calm refractory squallers.

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1872.  ‘A. Merion,’ Odd Echoes Oxf., 42.

        Fifty cats they fetched,
  Awful caterwaulers;
Fifty babies too,
  Warranted loud squallers.

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