screamer
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: Etymology tree
English scream
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English screamer
From scream + -er.
Inflected forms:
form: screamers
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly.
pos: noun
examples: 'Don't be frightened, mistress,' said Quilp, after a pause. 'Your son knows me; I don't eat babies; I don't like 'em. It will be as well to stop that young screamer though, in case I should be tempted to do him a mischief. Holloa, sir! Will you be quiet?'
He stood almost appalled for a moment, as he said to himself that she would take her up and the girl would be ruined, would force her note and become a screamer.
In my opinion, Sarah was a total screamer. […] She screams in BRAIN OF MORIBUS, PYRAMIDS OF MARS, PLANET OF EVIL, REVENGE OF CYBERMEN, GENESIS OF DALEKS, SEEDS OF DOOM, ARK IN SPACE, etc, etc. In just about all her stories. When she is not screaming she is yelping, "Run Doctor RUNNNNNN!"
gloss: Any bird in the taxonomic family Anhimidae, endemic to South America, being large, bulky birds with a small downy head, long legs and large feet.
pos: noun
gloss: A healthy, vigorous animal.
pos: noun
tags: US
obsolete
examples: I had seen the track of the bear they were after, and I knowed he was a screamer.
gloss: A healthy, vigorous person.
pos: noun
gloss: Something exceptionally good.
pos: noun
examples: "[…]I do not judge hastily, Alec, for I have read a dozen, at least, of these stories, and, with much that is attractive to boys, I find a great deal to condemn in them, and other parents say the same when I ask them."
"Now, Mum, that's too bad! I like 'em tip-top. This one is a regular screamer," cried Will.
gloss: A difficult catch.
pos: noun
examples: But then he came around the wicket again, I slashed at one, and Strauss, at full stretch diving to his left at second slip, took an absolute screamer. It was the catch of the summer, and it happened to me.
gloss: A very hard hit.
pos: noun
examples: His screamer into the right field bleachers in the sixth with Scarborough and Viau on base put Hickory out in front 9 to 8 and the lead held for the rest of the game.
gloss: A particularly high mark (clean catch of a kicked ball).
pos: noun
examples: Virtually every other facet of the game is shared by other sports, but the sight of a player taking a fingertip ‘screamer’ whilst perched on the shoulders of an opponent is unique to footy, and players who perfect this ability are among the code’s most celebrated and well remembered.
gloss: A powerful shot.
pos: noun
examples: Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.
gloss: A very large wave.
pos: noun
examples: That set the pattern for us both. Catch a screamer, work it hard for as long as you could, then drop back over the shoulder and paddle back out to the line-up.
gloss: A march played at a circus to enliven the crowd.
pos: noun
gloss: A video that unexpectedly frightens the viewer by cutting to a loud scream and disturbing image.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
examples: The Web is also big business; who needs a real job when you can just send Grandma a screamer and—POOF!—there's your inheritance.
gloss: An effeminate gay man; a man who is obviously homosexual.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Well, this friend was a real effeminate person—[he] was just a screamer. […] Well even my brother was smart enough to realize they were gay.
So when George Michael sings in his latest hit, “Girl, you're just too funky for me,” is he really singing about a woman? Or is he just being a total screamer and gender-fucking his male love object?
I thought Jeff was a screamer. I am still wondering about Alicia. She hangs with Jeff. But I shouldn't assume someone is lesbian by the company they keep.
gloss: A bouncer.
pos: noun
tags: US
dated
slang
gloss: An exclamation mark.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A large, attention-getting headline.
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: Hartley's argument usefully reminds us that the spread of celebrity is not just the consequence of an accumulation of publicity handouts, advertisements, chat show interviews, or the shock-horror revelations in the tabloid screamers.
gloss: A person who is extremely loud and boisterous during sexual intercourse.
pos: noun
examples: I could tell in advance if they were screamers, or leatherettes, or buggers, or great head-givers, or into toys and ticklers – I had it down to an art.
Related words: Anhimidae
Derived words: black-necked screamer
crested screamer
horned screamer
northern screamer
shelf-screamer
southern screamer
two pot screamer
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