[f. SQUALL v.1 + -ER1.] One who squalls or screams; one addicted to squalling; esp. a screaming child.
1687. Miége, Gt. Fr. Dict., II. Squawler, Celui qui crie.
1760. Ann. Reg., 220. Italian squallers oft disgrace the stage.
1796. Hunter, trans. St. Pierres Stud. Nat. (1799), II. 538. I dont mind nosegays, nor these little squallers [nightingales].
1816. Mrs. Shelley, in Dowden, Life Shelley (1887), II. 62. Tell me, shall you be happy to have another little squaller?
1841. J. T. Hewlett, Parish Clerk, I. 24. Mothers always sent for him to calm refractory squallers.
1872. A. Merion, Odd Echoes Oxf., 42.
Fifty cats they fetched, | |
Awful caterwaulers; | |
Fifty babies too, | |
Warranted loud squallers. |