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bellower

bellower noun: one who bellows.

Noun

bellower (plural bellowers)

  1. One who bellows.
    • 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
    • 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;1794, Robert Jephson, Roman Portraits, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, lines 558-561, p. 38
  2. (colloquial, obsolete) A town crier.

Forms of bellower

pluralbellowers

Origin of bellower

From bellow + -er.

Questions about bellower

What does bellower mean?
Bellower means one who bellows.
What part of speech is bellower?
Bellower is a noun.
What is the plural of bellower?
The plural of bellower is bellowers.

Words near bellower in the dictionary

  1. Bellovins
  2. bellow
  3. bellow out
  4. bellowed
  5. bellowed out
  6. bellower
  7. bellowers
  8. bellowest
  9. belloweth
  10. bellowfish
  11. bellowfishes

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