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howlback

noun

Etymology

Blend of howl + feedback.

  1. inherited from *bʰeg-✻ — “to bend”
  2. inherited from *baką✻
  3. inherited from *bak✻
  4. inherited from bæc
  5. inherited from bak
  6. formed as feedback — “feed + back”
  7. compounded as howlback — “howl + feedback”

Definitions

  1. A high-pitched squeal produced by feedback when a microphone is too close to its…

    A high-pitched squeal produced by feedback when a microphone is too close to its connected speakers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for howlback. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA