howler
That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkeyThat which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
» Leonid heard a howler monkey in the distance.
Значення
значень: 12That which howls, especially an animal such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
(історичне)A person hired to howl in mourning at a funeral.
(сленг)A painfully obvious mistake.
вопиющая ошибкаvopijuščaja ošibka
(сленг)A hilarious joke.
a joke that seems extremely funny
(сленг)A bitterly cold day.
A person who expresses aggression openly in the form of threats.
(переносно, іноді)A heavy fall.
(сленг)A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler; compare come a cropper).
Our hansom came a howler.
(сленг)A tremendous lie (especially an obvious one); a whopper.
(застаріле, сленг)A fashionably but extravagantly overdressed man, a "howling swell".
(історичне)A 32-ounce ceramic, plastic, or stainless steel jug used to transport draft beer.
(сленг)A small child.
Приклади
речень: 2Leonid heard a howler monkey in the distance.
Howler monkeys mainly eat leaves.
Переклади
мов: 3Походження
From howl + -er. Some senses are derivatives of the intensifier "howling", as in "howlingFrom howl + -er. Some senses are derivatives of the intensifier "howling", as in "howling wilderness", (Deuteronomy 32:10)
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множина: howlersСиноніми
синонімів: 7- monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry:howler monkey
- a joke that seems extremely funny:belly laughsidesplitterthigh-slapperscreamwowriot