growler
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɡɹaʊlə/
ipa: /ˈɡɹaʊlɚ/
rhymes: -aʊlə(ɹ)
Forms: form: growlers
Etymology: From growl + -er. Sense "jug" is 19th century American slang, of uncertain origin.
Senses: glosses: A person, creature or thing that growls.
examples: text: He had evidently studied the driver of a London growler, and produced a good sound readable type of man.
ref: 1883 October 16, London Daily Telegraph:
text: The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentleman's brougham.
ref: 1887, A. Conan Doyle, chapter 7, in A Study in Scarlet, part 2:
text: 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.
ref: 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 254:
glosses: A horse-drawn cab with four wheels.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 2002, Joseph O'Connor, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 152:
text: 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.
ref: 2007 November 24, Matthew Taylor, The Guardian:
glosses: A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
examples: text: […] their favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and their sea is a growler of lager and ale […]
ref: 1940, Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh, act 1:
text: 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.
ref: 2002, Louis M. Soletsky, 100 Years of Medicine, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 104:
glosses: A kind of jug, often with a handle, used to carry beer and preserve carbonation.
examples: text: Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler’ if you're from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack.
ref: 2008 August 22, Christina McDermott, The Guardian:
glosses: A pork pie.
examples: text: 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?"
ref: 2007, Cesca Martin, Agony Angel, Troubadour Publishing, pages 125–6:
glosses: The vulva.
glosses: A fish of the perch family, abundant in North American rivers, so named from the sound it emits.
examples: text: Includes voltmeters, ammeters, circuit testers, armature tester (external growler), field tester, (internal growler), coil and condenser tester, etc.
ref: 1962, United States. Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training, Trade and Industry Publication (issue 3, page 32)
text: 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.
ref: 2013, Donny Petersen, Donny's Unauthorized Technical Guide to Harley-Davidson, 1936 to Present:
glosses: A device for checking electrical equipment for short circuits etc.
Derived terms: crowler