Meaning

8 senses
  1. A person, creature or thing that growls.

  2. (historical, slang)A horse-drawn cab with four wheels.

  3. A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.

    a small iceberg or ice floe just large enough to be hazardous for shipping

  4. (Australia, Canada, US, informal)A kind of jug, often with a handle, used to carry beer and preserve carbonation.

  5. (UK, Yorkshire, dialectal)A pork pie.

  6. (UK, slang)The vulva.

  7. (US, dialectal)A fish of the perch family, abundant in North American rivers, so named from the sound it emits.

  8. A device for checking electrical equipment for short circuits etc.

Origin

From growl + -er. Sense "jug" is 19th century American slang, of uncertain origin.

From growl + -er. Sense "jug" is 19th century American slang, of uncertain origin.

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Forms

plural: growlers
Singulargrowler
Pluralgrowlers

regular

Word family

2 related words
Relatedgrowl
Derivedcrowler

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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