howlern.

Brit.

/ˈhaʊlə/, U.S.

/ˈhaʊlər/

Etymology: < howl v. + -er suffix¹.

a. An animal that howls.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > by noises > [noun] > that howls

howler1859

1859 W. M. Thomson Land & Bk. (1872) i. viii. 94 To be torn..and dragged about by these hideous howlers [jackals].

b. In full, howler monkey. A South American monkey of the genus Alouatta.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Alouatta (howler monkey)

guariba1753

howling monkey1769

warine1774

alouatte1779

howler monkey1800

araguato1852

congo ape1859

red howler1865

Congo monkey1874

ursine howler1884

Stentor1891

1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. i. 72 The Allouates, or Howlers, inhabit the moist forests, in the neighbourhood of waters and marshes.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 37/1 The species are, as the name [Mycetes] implies, Howlers, and the horrible yells sent forth by these animals..are described..as surpassingly distressing and unearthly.

1865 Reader No. 121. 457/1 Numerous spider-monkeys, the red howlers.

1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator i. 5 The chief monkey-furs imported are those obtained from the howlers.

1906 E. Ingersoll Life Animals: Mammals 43 The howlers, arguatos, or alluates are the largest and most powerful of South American apes and the dullest, and are peculiar in having no thumb or only a rudimentary one, and in having the hyoid bones in the throat (of the males only) widely enlarged and cavernous, so as to form a curious hollow organ, by which their voice is so increased as to be audible two miles.

1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes xi. 192 The well-known howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) of the forests of the northern half of South America are usually found in small parties.

1958 J. Carew Black Midas ii. 26 A big white devil does sit on a treetop roarin' like a howler baboon.

1964 Listener 5 Nov. 710/2 Fighting is rare in wild gibbons and apparently absent in wild howler monkeys.

1967 S. A. Altmann Social Communication among Primates xvii, 329 Other groups of howlers avoid areas from which such calls come.

a. A person hired to wail at a funeral or the bedside of the dying.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > mourner > hired or professional

weeper1412

saulie1621

blacka1625

mourner1631

wailer1647

dismal?1710

mute1741

keener1786

howler1844

moirologist1886

1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xviii. 284 The funerals..are attended by..howlers.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 July 2/1 When a man was dying (if his means allowed) professional howlers were employed.

b. A wassailer (see quot. 1875). dialect.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaker > [noun] > noisy or riotous

revellerc1405

roister1549

roisterkin1553

care-away1576

roister-doister1592

mad shaver1611

roarer1622

wassailer1637

scourer1672

roisterer1684

tear-rogue1685

howler1875

1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Howlers, boys who in former times went round wassailing the orchards.

3. slang. Something ‘crying’, ‘clamant’, or excessive; spec. a glaring blunder, esp. in an examination, etc. Cf. howling adj. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > something exceedingly great in degree

the utter1584

swinger1599

a devil of a ——1604

thumper1660

whisker1668

a (also the, one) hell of a ——c1680

swapperc1700

spanker1751

whopper1785

whacker1825

whanger1825

utmost1856

howler1872

hell1931

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > serious error, blunder

blunder1706

blunderbuss1726

floor1841

bull1846

howler1872

atrocity1878

break1884

bloomer1889

boner1912

bish1937

black1939

blue1941

cock-up1946

piss-up1950

screw-up1950

blob1952

1872 W. F. Butler Great Lone Land (1878) xix. 300 If the hood was fastened down by frozen breath to the opening, then it must be a howler outside.

1875 Punch 2 Oct. 136/1 John..having come a howler over the Leger, is stumped.

1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol II. ii. ii. 161 He's gone no end of a howler on the turf since.

1890 Athenæum 1 Mar. 275/1 In no examination papers..has any examiner met with more monstrous ‘howlers’ than crowd these pages.

1894 Month Apr. 464 The specimens of schoolboy blunders which, under the head of ‘Howlers’, are so popular in our journals.

†4. Telephony. A device (used by the exchange) for producing a howling noise in a receiver in order to attract the subscriber's attention. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > exchange > exchange equipment

private line1852

bank1884

call-disc1884

howler1886

trunk1889

multiple switchboard1891

rack1893

line switch1898

heat coil1900

relay rack1902

multiple1905

listening key1906

telharmonium1906

wiper1906

preselector1912

line finder1922

rank1924

routiner1928

keysender1929

uniselector1930

wiper arm1933

1886 Jrnl. Soc. Telegraph-engineers & Electricians 15 322 We supply what we call a ‘howler’, and whenever a subscriber leaves his tubes hanging this howler is at once put on.

1917 G. D. Shepardson Telephone Apparatus viii. 137 For reminding careless subscribers who neglect even to hang up the receiver..the operator..may send out a strong current of comparatively high frequency from the ‘howler’.

5. A howling storm.

ΚΠ

1894 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 286 I'm thankful my Robert got off yesterday, for wouldn't this have been a howler to drive in.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	howler
释义	howlern. Brit. /ˈhaʊlə/, U.S. /ˈhaʊlər/ Etymology: < howl v. + -er suffix¹. 1. a. An animal that howls. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > by noises > [noun] > that howls howler1859 1859 W. M. Thomson Land & Bk. (1872) i. viii. 94 To be torn..and dragged about by these hideous howlers [jackals]. b. In full, howler monkey. A South American monkey of the genus Alouatta. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > family Cebidae > genus Alouatta (howler monkey) guariba1753 howling monkey1769 warine1774 alouatte1779 howler monkey1800 araguato1852 congo ape1859 red howler1865 Congo monkey1874 ursine howler1884 Stentor1891 1800 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. I. i. 72 The Allouates, or Howlers, inhabit the moist forests, in the neighbourhood of waters and marshes. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 37/1 The species are, as the name [Mycetes] implies, Howlers, and the horrible yells sent forth by these animals..are described..as surpassingly distressing and unearthly. 1865 Reader No. 121. 457/1 Numerous spider-monkeys, the red howlers. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator i. 5 The chief monkey-furs imported are those obtained from the howlers. 1906 E. Ingersoll Life Animals: Mammals 43 The howlers, arguatos, or alluates are the largest and most powerful of South American apes and the dullest, and are peculiar in having no thumb or only a rudimentary one, and in having the hyoid bones in the throat (of the males only) widely enlarged and cavernous, so as to form a curious hollow organ, by which their voice is so increased as to be audible two miles. 1932 S. Zuckerman Social Life Monkeys & Apes xi. 192 The well-known howler monkeys (genus Alouatta) of the forests of the northern half of South America are usually found in small parties. 1958 J. Carew Black Midas ii. 26 A big white devil does sit on a treetop roarin' like a howler baboon. 1964 Listener 5 Nov. 710/2 Fighting is rare in wild gibbons and apparently absent in wild howler monkeys. 1967 S. A. Altmann Social Communication among Primates xvii, 329 Other groups of howlers avoid areas from which such calls come. 2. a. A person hired to wail at a funeral or the bedside of the dying. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > people involved in funeral > [noun] > mourner > hired or professional weeper1412 saulie1621 blacka1625 mourner1631 wailer1647 dismal?1710 mute1741 keener1786 howler1844 moirologist1886 1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen xviii. 284 The funerals..are attended by..howlers. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 25 July 2/1 When a man was dying (if his means allowed) professional howlers were employed. b. A wassailer (see quot. 1875). dialect. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaker > [noun] > noisy or riotous revellerc1405 roister1549 roisterkin1553 care-away1576 roister-doister1592 mad shaver1611 roarer1622 wassailer1637 scourer1672 roisterer1684 tear-rogue1685 howler1875 1875 W. D. Parish Dict. Sussex Dial. Howlers, boys who in former times went round wassailing the orchards. 3. slang. Something ‘crying’, ‘clamant’, or excessive; spec. a glaring blunder, esp. in an examination, etc. Cf. howling adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [noun] > quality or fact of being extreme > something exceedingly great in degree the utter1584 swinger1599 a devil of a ——1604 thumper1660 whisker1668 a (also the, one) hell of a ——c1680 swapperc1700 spanker1751 whopper1785 whacker1825 whanger1825 utmost1856 howler1872 hell1931 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > an error, mistake > [noun] > serious error, blunder blunder1706 blunderbuss1726 floor1841 bull1846 howler1872 atrocity1878 break1884 bloomer1889 boner1912 bish1937 black1939 blue1941 cock-up1946 piss-up1950 screw-up1950 blob1952 1872 W. F. Butler Great Lone Land (1878) xix. 300 If the hood was fastened down by frozen breath to the opening, then it must be a howler outside. 1875 Punch 2 Oct. 136/1 John..having come a howler over the Leger, is stumped. 1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol II. ii. ii. 161 He's gone no end of a howler on the turf since. 1890 Athenæum 1 Mar. 275/1 In no examination papers..has any examiner met with more monstrous ‘howlers’ than crowd these pages. 1894 Month Apr. 464 The specimens of schoolboy blunders which, under the head of ‘Howlers’, are so popular in our journals. †4. Telephony. A device (used by the exchange) for producing a howling noise in a receiver in order to attract the subscriber's attention. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > exchange > exchange equipment private line1852 bank1884 call-disc1884 howler1886 trunk1889 multiple switchboard1891 rack1893 line switch1898 heat coil1900 relay rack1902 multiple1905 listening key1906 telharmonium1906 wiper1906 preselector1912 line finder1922 rank1924 routiner1928 keysender1929 uniselector1930 wiper arm1933 1886 Jrnl. Soc. Telegraph-engineers & Electricians 15 322 We supply what we call a ‘howler’, and whenever a subscriber leaves his tubes hanging this howler is at once put on. 1917 G. D. Shepardson Telephone Apparatus viii. 137 For reminding careless subscribers who neglect even to hang up the receiver..the operator..may send out a strong current of comparatively high frequency from the ‘howler’. 5. A howling storm. ΚΠ 1894 S. Hale Lett. (1919) 286 I'm thankful my Robert got off yesterday, for wouldn't this have been a howler to drive in. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1800
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