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Definizione monolingua


growler


Noun

growler (plural growlers)


  1. A person, creature or thing that growls.
  2. (historical, slang) A cab with four wheels.
    • 1887, A. Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, Part 2 Ch. 7
      The ordinary London growler is considerably less wide than a gentlemans brougham.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 254:
      Lew pulled his socks from a jacket pocket, grabbed his own shoes, and together they proceeded to the street and into a growler, and were off.
  3. A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
    • 2002, Joseph OConnor, Star of the Sea, Vintage 2003, p. 152:
      A great ‘growler’ iceberg was sighted this afternoon at a distance of approximately half a mile; the size of a large London house, more or less.
    • 2007, Matthew Taylor, The Guardian, 24 November 2007 [1]:
      As the cruise ship Explorer was picking its way through the Antarctic sea ice, it hit what experts believe was a ""growler"" - a huge iceberg shorn from the Antarctic ice shelf.
  4. (informal) A kind of jug used to carry beer.
    • 1940, Eugene ONeill, The Iceman Cometh, Act 1
      ... their favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and their sea is a growler of lager and ale ...
    • 2002, Louis M. Soletsky, 100 Years of Medicine, iUniverse, ISBN 9780595229253, page 104:
      This container was a round lidded tin with a handle and was colloquially called a growler. […] to get daddy or mommy a growler of beer, which was, by the way, approximately a quart.
  5. (dialect) A Yorkshire term for a pork pie.
    • 2008, Christina McDermott, The Guardian, 22 August 2008 [2]:
      Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler’ if youre from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack.
  6. (UK, slang) The vulva.
    • 2007, Cesca Martin, Agony Angel, Troubadour Publishing 2007, pp. 125-6:
      On our first meeting hed asked me if I dyed my hair. I told him I did and his follow up question had been the much under rated, ""What colours your growler then?""

Definizione dizionario growler


animale che ringhia
brontolone
piccolo iceberg

Altri significati:
  A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
  (dialect) A Yorkshire term for a pork pie.
  (informal) A kind of jug used to carry beer.
  (historical, slang) A cab with four wheels.
  A person, creature or thing that growls.
  (UK, slang) The vulva.

Traduzione growler


animale che ringhia ,brontolone ,piccolo iceberg

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