growler

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɹaʊlə/    美 /ˈɡɹaʊlɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person, creature or thing that growls.
  2. A horse-drawn cab with four wheels. historical,slang
    — He had evidently studied the driver of a London growler, and produced a good sound readable type of man.
  3. A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water.
    — 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.
  4. A kind of jug, often with a handle, used to carry beer and preserve carbonation. Australia,Canada,US,informal
    — […] their favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and their sea is a growler of lager and ale […]
  5. A pork pie. UK,Yorkshire,dialectal
    — Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler’ if you're from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack.
  6. The vulva. UK,slang
    — On our first meeting he'd asked me if I dyed my hair. I told him I did and his follow up^([sic]) question had been the much under rated^([sic]), "What colour's your growler then?"
  7. A fish of the perch family, abundant in North American rivers, so named from the sound it emits. US,dialectal
  8. A device for checking electrical equipment for short circuits etc.
    — Includes voltmeters, ammeters, circuit testers, armature tester (external growler), field tester, (internal growler), coil and condenser tester, etc.

词形变化

growlers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
crowler

词源

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