Meaning

4 senses
  1. One who groans or complains.

    I don’t need to hear from groaners like you.

    a person who groans

  2. (informal)A work of extremely low quality, so bad as to inspire groaning.

    That movie was a real groaner.

  3. (informal)A particularly egregious joke, especially a pun.

  4. (slang)A whistling buoy.

Origin

From Middle English groner, gronar, equivalent to groan + -er.

From Middle English groner, gronar, equivalent to groan + -er.

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Forms

plural: groaners
Singulargroaner
Pluralgroaners

regular

Antonyms

1 antonyms
knee slapper

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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