snarling

adjective

1. 1

   Growling, having a snarl.

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

   Mr. Trump’s campaign of retribution began to intensify in mid-July after an adviser stoked his snarling impatience over the slow pace of Justice Department investigations.

noun

1. 1

   The act of producing a snarl or growl.

   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.

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of snarlpresent participle and gerund of snarl

Forms

plural

snarlings