gowl

British  

/ ɡaʊl /

noun

1. dialect the substance often found in the corner of the eyes after sleep

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Example Sentences

But it can also look like this: “Her heart and her hair that he loved to run his hands through her eyes he would gaze into her mouth he kissed her ears full of his words her lungs that breathed him her gowl she never let him into her guts too why not Bury it all burn it all who cared what was any of it without him.”

From Los Angeles Times

As Bogart, Roger Casey captures the actor’s tics but not his undercurrents; Catherine Gowl’s Bergman, racked by the filmmakers’ indecision over the movie’s ending, invites greater sympathy.

From New York Times

Then, uttering one deep, cavernous “gowl” it came straight for them.

From Project Gutenberg

It will put a soul into a ghaist, a yearning heart into a gowl, and a spirit o' nobility in the breast o' ane wha never quartered arms but wi' the fair anes o' flesh an' bluid that belang to his wife.

From Project Gutenberg

At this the heart within me gave way, and I roared out in my helpless pain a perfect "gowl" of anger and grief.

From Project Gutenberg