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scrowler

scrowler noun: a pilchard cooked by scrowling.

Noun

scrowler (plural scrowlers)

  1. (Cornwall) A pilchard cooked by scrowling.
    • […] every town a little later will be exceedingly fragrant with the odour of 'scrowlers' — which is to say, fried pilchards.1893, Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, page 56

Forms of scrowler

pluralscrowlers

Questions about scrowler

What does scrowler mean?
Scrowler means a pilchard cooked by scrowling.
What part of speech is scrowler?
Scrowler is a noun.
What is the plural of scrowler?
The plural of scrowler is scrowlers.

Words near scrowler in the dictionary

  1. scrowged
  2. scrowges
  3. scrowging
  4. scrowl
  5. scrowled
  6. scrowler
  7. scrowlers
  8. scrowling
  9. scrowls
  10. scrows
  11. scroyle

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