growl

The object of his growl was a journalist who spent two years battling him on the Dodgers beat.

As a child, Lulu modelled herself on James Brown and Big Mama Thornton – gritty R&B singers who lent their grit and growl to Lulu's version of Shout.

That voice is all purr and growl, like a lion clawing its way through velvet.

She dropped into her gravelly Cookie Monster growl for the answer: “Brown food tastes good.”

Tasmanian devils have “noisy, dramatic feeding frenzies filled with growls and screeches” when they gather around a carcass, zoo officials said.