Meaning

2 senses
  1. (obsolete, slang)A sentence of transportation for life.

  2. (obsolete, slang)A blow in the pit of the stomach, taking one's breath away.

Origin

From bellows + -er, from bellows (“the lungs”); (life sentence): because people continue t

From bellows + -er, from bellows (“the lungs”); (life sentence): because people continue to breathe until they die.

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Forms

plural: bellowsers
Singularbellowser
Pluralbellowsers

regular

Word family

1 related words
Relatedbellowsed

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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