bellower

bellower

English

Etymology

    From bellow + -er.

    Noun

    bellower (plural bellowers)

    1. One who bellows.
      • 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[2], London, page 56:
        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.
      • 1794, Robert Jephson, Roman Portraits, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, lines 558-561, p. 38,[3]
        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;
      • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “chapter 41”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, [], published 1839, →OCLC:
        ‘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.
      • 2016 October 10, Brad Wheeler, “Roger Waters, The Who get political at Desert Trip”, in The Globe and Mail:
        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.
    2. (obsolete, colloquial) A town crier.[1]

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    References

    1. ^ Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: S. Hooper, 2nd edition, 1788.[1]

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