growler
English
editEtymology
editFrom growl + -er. Sense "jug" is 19th century American slang, of uncertain origin.
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹaʊlə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡɹaʊlɚ/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -aʊlə(ɹ)
Noun
editgrowler (plural growlers)
- A person, creature or thing that growls.
- (historical, slang) A horse-drawn cab with four wheels.
- 1883 October 16, London Daily Telegraph:
- He had evidently studied the driver of a London growler, and produced a good sound readable type of man.
- 1887, A. Conan Doyle, chapter 7, in A Study in Scarlet, part 2:
- The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 254:
- Lew pulled his socks from a jacket pocket, grabbed his own shoes, and together they proceeded to the street and into a growler, and were off.
- A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 152:
- A great ‘growler’ iceberg was sighted this afternoon at a distance of approximately half a mile; the size of a large London house, more or less.
- 2007 November 24, Matthew Taylor, The Guardian:
- As the cruise ship Explorer was picking its way through the Antarctic sea ice, it hit what experts believe was a "growler" - a huge iceberg shorn from the Antarctic ice shelf.
- (informal, Canada, US, Australia) A kind of jug, often with a handle, used to carry beer and preserve carbonation.
- 1940, Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh, act 1:
- […] their favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and their sea is a growler of lager and ale […]
- (dialect, UK, Yorkshire) A pork pie.
- 2008 August 22, Christina McDermott, The Guardian:
- Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler’ if you're from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack.
- (British, slang) The vulva.
- (US, dialect) A fish of the perch family, abundant in North American rivers, so named from the sound it emits.
- A device for checking electrical equipment for short circuits etc.
- 1962, United States. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, Trade and Industry Publication (issue 3, page 32)
- Includes voltmeters, ammeters, circuit testers, armature tester (external growler), field tester, (internal growler), coil and condenser tester, etc.
- 2013, Donny Petersen, Donny's Unauthorized Technical Guide to Harley-Davidson, 1936 to Present:
- A Growler is one of the most versatile tools for electric motor service, whether a starter motor or a generator. The growler gets its name because of a growling noise it emits upon finding an electrical short.
- 1962, United States. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, Trade and Industry Publication (issue 3, page 32)
Categories:
- English terms suffixed with -er (agent noun)
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/aʊlə(ɹ)
- Rhymes:English/aʊlə(ɹ)/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with historical senses
- English slang
- English terms with quotations
- English informal terms
- Canadian English
- American English
- Australian English
- English dialectal terms
- British English
- Yorkshire English