growler
English
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A glass growler (jug for beer).
Etymology
growl + -er
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɡɹaʊlə/
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -aʊlə(r)
Noun
growler (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:
- The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 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.
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- 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 2003, p. 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, Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, 24 November 2007 :
- 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.
- 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 152:
- (informal, Canada, US, Australia) A kind of jug used to carry beer (in current usage, a 2-liter or 64-ounce container with or without a handle; sometimes extended to similarly shaped 32-ounce jug, but not bottles).
- 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 […]
- 2002, Louis M. Soletsky, 100 Years of Medicine, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 104:
- This container was a round lidded tin with a handle and was colloquially called a growler. […] to get daddy or mommy a growler of beer, which was, by the way, approximately a quart.
- 1940, Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh, Act 1
- (dialectal, Britain, Yorkshire) A pork pie.
- 2008, Christina McDermott, The Guardian, 22 August 2008 :
- Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler’ if you're from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack.
- 2008, Christina McDermott, The Guardian, 22 August 2008 :
- (Britain, slang) The vulva.
- 2007, Cesca Martin, Agony Angel, Troubadour Publishing 2007, pp. 125-6:
- On our first meeting he'd asked me if I dyed my hair. I told him I did and his follow up[sic] question had been the much under rated[sic], "What colour's your growler then?"
- 2007, Cesca Martin, Agony Angel, Troubadour Publishing 2007, pp. 125-6:
- (US, dialectal) A fish of the perch family, abundant in North American rivers, so named from the sound it emits.