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Definition of Growler
1. Noun. A speaker whose voice sounds like a growl.
2. Noun. A small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping.
Definition of Growler
1. n. One who growls.
Definition of Growler
1. Noun. A person, creature or thing that growls. ¹
2. Noun. (context: historical slang) A cab with four wheels. ¹
3. Noun. A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water. ¹
4. Noun. (informal) A kind of jug used to carry beer. ¹
5. Noun. (dialect) A Yorkshire term for a pork pie. ¹
6. Noun. (British slang) The vulva. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Growler
1. one that growls [n -S] - See also: growls
Medical Definition of Growler
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1. One who growls.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Growler
Literary usage of Growler
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1874)
"My capabilities in that regard the missus critically inspected from her open
window, as I tooled the - growler up and down the mews, and she was good enough ..."
2. Vermont: The Green Mountain State by Walter Hill Crockett (1921)
"Macdonough endeavored to repair the damage sustained by the loss of the growler
and the Eagle, and acting under the authority given him he purchased two ..."
3. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1915)
"growler. Daisy Elliot. WELL, everything goes wrong. There never was a crankier
set of people than this Class of . If anyone fondly imagines there would be ..."
4. Collection of the Official Accounts, in Detail, of All the Battles Fought by by Heman Allen Fay (1817)
"... AND growler RE-CAPTURED. Copy of a letter from Commodore Chauncey, to the
Secretary of the Navy, dated USS Gen. ..."
5. 1812; the War, and Its Moral: A Canadian Chronicle by William Foster Coffin (1864)
"... post— Capture of American schooners growler and Eagle— Reprisals— Officers
and men of HM brig of war, Wasp, transferred to Lake Champlain — Plattsburg, ..."
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