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bellower en · NOUN

Etymology

From bellow + -er.

Meanings

1. One who bellows.
   • 1794, Robert Jephson, Roman Portraits, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, lines 558-561, p. 38, Besides, the scent of mischief lur’d along (The scum of towns) a numerous noisy throng; Bellowers, unfit to govern or obey, Who little heed the cause, but love the fray;
   • Mic-swinging lead bellower Roger Daltrey stuck to singing, while sometime-vocalist Pete Townshend proved his guitar game was as strong as his aptitude and willingness for pithy, insolent commentary. 2016 October 10, Brad Wheeler, “Roger Waters, The Who get political at Desert Trip”, in The Globe and Mail:
   • And these [oxen] the wittie-borne (Argicides,) set serious spie vpon: Seuering from all the rest; and setting gone Full fiftie of the violent Bellowers. c. 1624, “A Hymne to Hermes”, in George Chapman, transl., The Crowne of all Homers workes Batrachomyomachia or the battaile of frogs and mise. His hymn’s - and - epigrams, London, page 56:
   • ‘A—hem!’ cried the same voice; and that, not in the tone of an ordinary clearing of the throat, but in a kind of bellow, which woke up all the echoes in the neighbourhood, and was prolonged to an extent which must have made the unseen bellower quite black in the face. 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “chapter 41”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:
2. (colloquial, obsolete) A town crier.

Forms

Translations (4)

fi karjuja (one who bellows) · fi mölähtelijä (one who bellows) · la bovinātor (one who bellows) · la mūgītor (one who bellows)