callern.
/ˈkɔːlə/, U.S. /ˈkɔlər/, /ˈkɑlər/ I. A person who calls or summons, and related senses.† 2. A person who brings a charge or complaint before a court of law; a complainant, a plaintiff. Obsolete.
1.
a. A person who cries aloud, proclaims, or announces; (hence) a person who invokes, summons, or exhorts by calling aloud. Also: an animal which makes its characteristic call. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > call > person
cleper1382
caller1557
hailer1888
society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > invocatory > action of using > one who uses
caller1557
invokera1649
society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > announcer or proclaimer > herald
beadlec1000
herald1377
caller1580
trumpeter1673
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 25 Evs, voys of a caller.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 46 (MED) He þat askis takis, & to þe callar it sal be opynd.
1534 G. Joye tr. Jeremy Prophete xlviii. f. lxxxviv The caller to the grape gatheringe shal nomore trede in the wyne presse.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xx. f. 98 We be bounde to the caller for this also.
1557 Confut. Tyndales Aunswere (new ed.) in Wks. Sir T. More 823/1 Callers vppon the name of God.
1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 960 The caller of the Court was one Cooke of Winchester.
1604 J. Dee in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) 47 That he is, or hath bin a Conjurer, or Caller, or Invocator of divels.
1613 S. Hieron Baptizing of Eunuch 56 The sight of it is rather a continuall caller vpon him to be faithful to him.
1635 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 98 Item to the caller in the court, 4d.
1760 W. Law Of Justif. by Faith & Wks. 49 Will such a Caller upon the Lord, without good Works, have his sufficient Excuse, by saying [etc.]
1768 Answers H. Rose of Kilravock & A. Mackenzie 14 The legislature did not mean that it should be in the power of the caller of the roll to impose upon the meeting any preses or clerk he thought proper.
1879 Potter's Amer. Monthly Apr. 248/2 Then the clear, incisive voice of the caller rattles off a string of words and figures that no human ear can catch.
1889 Rep. Brit. Assoc. Advancem. Sci. 1888 246 As soon as all is ready for the move, the chief gives the word, and the callers summon the people to start on the march.
1902 E. Stratemeyer Under Scott in Mexico (1909) ii. 22 Again the cry reached them, but this time in a gasping voice, as though the caller was fast losing her strength.
1958 Copeia No. 1. 45/2 It was impossible to scale the trees from whence the barking calls originated, and even with binoculars I could not locate the callers.
1961 John o' London's 21 Dec. 682/4 The ‘callers’ would then wander around..picking out a few for employment at 5d an hour.
2002 N. Minhas Chapatti or Chips? xxxii. 352 ‘Kutti,’ a voice rang clear of the rest, ‘kutti kutti kutti.’ Naina swung her head round to locate the caller.
b. Originally U.S. In square or country dancing: a person who announces the steps or figures.
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society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > square, figure, or set dance > [noun] > caller
caller1855
1855 ‘O. Optic’ In Doors & Out 315 ‘First couple lead up to the right!’ shouted the caller.
1884 Santa Fé New Mexican Rev. 23 Feb. 1/5 I told her I couldn't hear the caller. I was waiting for some man to sing out ‘balance all’, when she said: ‘Why, we don't have any callers here.’
1931 Amer. Speech 7 50 To the ‘fiddlin'’ for the square dances the ‘caller’ sing-songs: All to your places, straighten up your faces, Join eight hands and circle left.
1966 Melody Maker 7 May 18/1 (advt.) Beckenham Ballrooms are interested in commencing a Country Style evening every Tuesday. They need a caller and musicians.
2006 List (Glasgow & Edinb. Events Guide) 14 Dec. 92/4 Ceilidh dance with callers to lead you through the steps.
2010 N.Y. Times 3 Dec. 33/3 As the caller, Mr. Crane let dancers know whether to allemande left or right.
c. A person responsible for summoning people to work at the appointed time; spec. (a) English regional (north-eastern) a person who summons miners to work; (b) U.S. a person who summons railway workers to work. Cf. call boy n. 4. Now rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > [noun] > action, act, or state of waking or being wakened > specific waking or rousing > one who > specific
knocker-up1861
caller1863
1863 E. Corvan in E. Corvan et al. Choice Coll. Tyneside Songs 61 Ho! marrows, tis the Caller cries.
1863 Med. Times & Gaz. 10 Oct. 385/1 Every man of the fore-shift marks 1 on his door-that is the sign for the caller to wake him at that hour.
1898 H. E. Hamblen Gen. Manager's Story 72 The caller made his rounds with orders to call the first man he found off duty.
1917 Brotherhood Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen's Mag. 15 Sept. 27 ‘What's th' matter? Ain't you been to bed yet?’ taunted the caller.
1935 A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. viii. 65 Next morning the caller woke him, at two o'clock he was in the pit working the early fore shift.
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the mind > language > speech > request > [noun] > one who requests or petitions
callerc1503
customer1542
entreater1588
importunate1642
society > law > administration of justice > court proceedings or procedure > action of courts in claims or grievances > party in litigation > [noun] > plaintiff
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actora1325
askera1325
plaintiffa1325
plainer1340
challengera1382
pursuanta1393
follower1397
suer1423
pursuer1430
plainant1437
suitor1454
suit maker1469
complainant1495
plainandc1500
callerc1503
tabler1517
complaintiffc1533
complainer?1542
impleader1583
pledant1599
proceedera1618
querent1720
pulsator1730
demandeur1818
movant1875
rapper1904
c1503 J. Younge Fyancells of Margaret in Leland's De Rebus Brit. Collectanea (1770) IV. 288 The King called them before hym, and demaunded them the Cause of ther Difference. The Caller sayd, Syre, he hath taken from me my Lady Paramour.
3. A person who calls people together for a meeting, conference, or other gathering; a person who calls a meeting. Usually with of or possessive, indicating the meeting called.
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society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > meeting or assembling for common purpose > [noun] > a meeting > one who convokes
warner1572
assembler1635
convener1680
convocator1823
caller1841
convocant1850
1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. vi. xii. f. 308 The calling or summoning of councels may be done either by waye of auctoritie, which the caller him selfe hath, or by waye of auctoritie, which he taketh of an other.
1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 114 Emperours, and kings..of themselues are no absolute, and powerfull commanders, and callers of Councels.
1691 R. Baxter Against Revolt to Foreign Jurisdict. xix. 281 Emperors were the ordinary Callers of the General Councils, and not the Presidents or Pope.
1841 T. P. Thompson Exercises (1842) VI. 246 Letting the callers of the meeting have their way.
1878 Christian Union 16 Oct. 302/1 A convention to discuss, but not to debate, the Second Coming of Christ convenes in the church of the Holy Trinity... Its callers include representative men from all evangelical denominations.
1904 J. F. Finerty Ireland I. iii. iii. 204 They met there accordingly, headed by the caller of the gathering.
1927 Altoona (Pa.) Mirror 15 July 24/3 It is for the Japanese and Americans, especially the latter, as callers of the conference, to suggest something.
2003 Austral. Financial Rev. (Nexis) 4 Apr. 84 Farooq claimed that as the caller of the meeting he had a right to decide where it would be held.
4. Hunting.
a. A hunter who sounds a call in order to attract an animal. Also: a decoy bird used to attract other birds with its call. North American in later use.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > decoy bird
stalec1440
stall?a1500
chanterelle1601
staling1601
gig1621
fetcha1640
call bird1686
caller1725
stool1825
playbird1878
brace-bird1885
jacky-bird1897
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > [noun] > shout of huntsmen > person
caller1776
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Lark The Way of taking Larks is with Nets..the Callers are set upon the Ground.
1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxvii. 128 The caller applies two of his fingers to his lips, and sucking them..produces a squeaking sound.
1866 W. R. King Sportsman & Naturalist in Canada iii. 52 The caller..retires, with a reserve gun, to the rear of the sportsman.
1892 Forest & Stream 7 July 4/1 Personally I know three Indians who are first-rate callers and good still-hunters.
1920 Outing Nov. 67/2 Old Susie, my best caller, was riding the waves as best she could..; occasionally letting out her hoarse quacks.
1966 Big Spring (Texas) Daily Herald 22 Nov. b2 The caller began his work just as it was beginning to be daylight, and the big gobblers stuck their ugly heads high in the air and answered.
2007 B. Lovett Hunting Pressured Turkeys 176 He and the caller were ecstatic because it had been a classic hunt.
b. North American. A whistle or other instrument used by hunters to imitate the sound of a particular animal, esp. a bird; = call n. 2b.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fowling > fowling equipment > [noun] > calls
quail-pipea1425
call1607
quail call1614
bird call1621
lark call1791
caller1845
yelper1884
turkey-yelper1895
1845 Weekly Nashville (Tennessee) Union 30 Apr. When Hassell got to him, Durard was dead, holding his turkey caller in his hand.
1877 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer i. 107 The small bone from the wing of the turkey makes a very good caller.
1901 Cases Courts of Appeals Missouri 88 390 The callers were made exactly according to sample furnished by the defendant.
1978 Field & Stream June 86/2 You can buy fancy wooden callers like it, but the bottle sounds just as good to me.
2003 M. D. Johnson Successful Small Game Hunting iii. 42/2 Our $1.98 Goodwill caller worked. Boy, howdy, did it work.
5. A person who pays a call on another; a visitor.bogus caller, gentleman caller, morning-caller, personal caller, etc.: see the first element.
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society > leisure > social event > visit > visitor > [noun]
resorter1533
comer1576
visitor1576
visiter1592
visitant1601
caller1786
visitress1827
visiting fireman1926
1786 F. Burney Diary & Lett. (1842) III. i. 39 Making him keep off all callers, by telling them I am dressing for the Queen.
1812 T. Chalmers Let. in W. Hanna Mem. T. Chalmers (1851) I. 296 We have had a flow of forenoon callers.
1865 London Rev. 23 Dec. 662/1 The most successful caller, i.e. the caller who finds no one at home.
1920 Amer. Woman Aug. 5/2 With what presumptuous swiftness he had changed himself from an occasional caller into an almost ever-present one!
1966 L. Braun Cat who could read Backwards viii. 91 I don't want her running home..and putting on a sharp outfit to receive callers.
1993 Collins Compl. DIY Man. (new ed.) iv. 246/4 A peephole door viewer enables you to identify callers before admitting them.
6. Poker. A player who matches the bet of another player in order to remain in play, or (esp. in earlier use) in order to get other players to show their hands to determine who has the best cards. See call v. 20c.
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1864 W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle 181 Should a player call an opponent, both parties must show their hands, the caller last, and the best poker hand wins.
1887 J. W. Keller Game of Draw Poker (1889) 61 Curiosity in Poker playing is by no means confined to women. Many men are inveterate and habitual callers, and consequently habitual losers.
1914 Army & Navy Reg. 3 Jan. 31/2 He holds that the old aphorism that ‘persistent callers and persistent bluffers are sure losers in the end’ might better be applied to persistent layers down.
1968 J. Rubens Win at Poker v. 89 Suppose you opened with a pair of aces and had two callers.
1977 D. Armstrong Win at Gin & Poker iii. 188 Bettor shows a pair of aces. Caller shows no pair and no card higher than a king.
2001 G. Carson Compl. Bk. Hold 'Em Poker 119 Raises from players still to act don't cut down your bet odds.., except to the extent that a raise might cause a potential caller to fold.
7. A person who makes a telephone call.phone caller, telephone caller: see the first element.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > [noun] > caller
caller1879
telephoner1880
party1912
ringer-up1928
phoner1933
telephonist1952
1879 Cheshire Observer 13 Dec. 7/5 He was aroused during the night by a summons through his telephone to go at once to the house of the caller.
1899 Post Office Guide July 533 If a deposit has been made by the caller in the first instance to cover the fee for the second period of three minutes.
1954 K. Amis Lucky Jim 95 Your second three minutes are up, caller.
1959 M. Chamberlin Dear Friends & Darling Romans (1960) iv. 29 It is the common practice of the caller to demand the number of the callee immediately.
1987 Canberra Times 6 June b1/5 They tell her to keep the caller on the line for as long as possible so that they can trace the call.
2013 Waitrose Weekend 25 July 24/3 Radio phone-ins are currently full of callers urging England to beat the Aussies into submission.
8. A person who calls out the numbers in a game of bingo. Cf. bingo caller n. at bingo n.2 Additions.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > bingo or lotto > [noun] > caller
caller1934
1934 San Antonio (Texas) Express 19 Aug. d7/3 The caller at bingo was Jerome Donzis.
1961 Lake Centre News (Arborg , Manitoba) 14 Nov. 10/5 A sudden hush descends on the room as the caller begins counting off the numbers in lots of ten.
1993 F. Weldon in M. Bradbury & A. Motion New Writing 2 138 Would you care to come to Bingo with me tonight..? The Caller is a very good friend of mine.
2007 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 6 May (Travel section) 7 All heads rise simultaneously as the caller, in a pool of light, proclaims another number.
9. Scottish. A person who drives cattle or oxen; a person who drives a cart or plough. Cf. call v. IV. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping of cattle > [noun] > herding of cattle > cowherd
cowherda1000
oxherd1281
geldherd1284
nowtherd1296
neatherd1301
drover1384
catcherc1400
caller?a1500
ox-boy1580
neatress1586
harrier1591
cowherdess1611
spurn-cow1614
neatherdess1648
cowgirl1753
herds-woman1818
oxman1820
ranchero1825
topsman1825
vaquero1826
herdsmaiden1829
overlander1841
cattle-herd1845
cowboy1849
buckaroo1852
stock-rider1862
pointer1869
night-herder1870
puncher1870
bull-puncher1872
outrider1872
cowpuncher1873
range man1875
cow-puncher1878
herd-boy1878
cow-girl1884
trail-herd1885
trail boss1890
nighthawk1903
point man1903
swing man1903
top hand1912
charro1926
waddy1927
cattle-puncher1928
cowpoke1928
paniolo1947
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Husbandman l. 2238 in Poems (1981) 85 The caller cryit, ‘How! Haik!’ vpon hicht.
1643 in G. R. Kinloch Select. Minutes Synod of Fife (1837) 136 Cadgers, oxin driveris and load callers.
a1722 J. Lauder Jrnls. (1900) 240 40 loads of coalls,..drink money to the cawer.
1805 G. Barry Hist. Orkney App. vii. 447 The caller..goes before the beasts backward with a whip.
1867 W. McDowell Hist. Dumfries xxi. 252 Yoking ten strapping sons in a plough, he held it himself, whilst his youngest boy acted as ‘caller’.
Compounds
C1. With adverbs, in compound agent nouns corresponding to phrasal verbs at call v., as caller-away, caller-in, caller-off, caller-on, caller-out, caller-up, etc. (see call v. Phrasal verbs 1).
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1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xli. f. cvi Callers on to haue that poynt reformyd.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Necromantes, a Necromancer, or caller vp of yll tspirites.
1542 T. Becon New Pollecye of Warre sig. D.vii Yea would god they were not callers backe & vtter despisers of ye same [sc. the syncer word of God].
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde ii. vii. f. 77v My importunate caulers on.
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxxiii. sig. F12 His..caller away is his Study.
1685 J. Flavell Πνευματολογια 202 Tertullian calls them [sc. Angels] Evocatores animarum, the Callers forth of Souls.
1772 J. Entick New Spelling Dict. (new ed.) 61/1 Clicker, a caller-in at a shop.
1878 F. S. Williams Midland Railway (ed. 4) 642 The ‘caller-off’ shouts out..the name.
1882 Cent. Mag. Oct. 878/2 The ‘caller-out’..not only calls out the figures, but explains them at length to the ignorant, sometimes accompanying them through the performance.
1899 R. Whiteing No. 5 John St. vi. 47 The caller-up begins his rounds with the dawn.
1917 A. G. Empey Over Top xix. 148 The caller-out has many nicknames for the numbers such as..‘Clickety-click’ for sixty-six.
1991 N.Y. Times Mag. 10 Nov. 24/3 Be the first caller-in to Mr. Limbaugh to pronounce it correctly.
C2.
caller display n. Telecommunications = caller ID n.
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1972 R. Koenig & R. Staffel Motorist Aid via Radio Call Box 119 The console will display and print this information on the ‘second caller’ display.]
1983 Proc. 10th Internat. Symp. Human Factors Telecommunications 21 Services offered by the digital switching system are available e.g. caller display.
1990 Computerworld 19 Mar. 58/3 Enough bandwidth to combine several services—such as voice, high-speed facsimile and caller display—on one dial-up line.
2004 Sun (Nexis) 23 Apr. The next day she phoned me at work and the caller display showed she was not phoning from home.
caller ID n. Telecommunications a feature by which the number and typically the name of a telephone caller are displayed.Now used chiefly with reference to landline phones, as mobile phones generally have the feature as standard.
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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telephony > telephone equipment > [noun] > telephone > telephone facilities
automatic dialler1922
dialler1922
autodial1934
autodialler1960
redial1960
auto-answer1961
hold1965
camp-on1975
caller ID1978
voicebank1988
1978 Computerworld 15 May 40/2 (heading) No Caller ID.
1985 Proc. IEEE Global Telecommunications Conf. 1 316/1 Caller ID..automatically sends the telephone number of incoming calls over the customer's line to be displayed on a separate customer-owned..device or possible integrated telephone set.
2003 G. Joseph Big Smoke xxiv. 222 Ditton cursed himself for not having a landline phone with caller ID.
caller identification n. Telecommunications = caller ID n.
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1969 Valley News (Van Nuys, Calif.) 18 July (East Valley ed.) 4 a/2 An automatic caller identification system..would make it possible for an emergency dispatcher to have the caller's phone number, address and proper jurisdiction flashed on a television-type screen.
1982 Financial Times (Nexis) 13 Apr. iii. p. iii Digital exchanges are much more reliable, flexible and versatile, offering facilities like automatic call-back, conference calls and caller identification.
2002 N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 303 I buy one of those caller-identification devices, and I begin to call back and hang up on the numbers that appear.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
calleradj.
/ˈkɑːlə/, U.S. /ˈkɑlər/, Scottish English /ˈkalər/ Scottish and English regional (northern).
1. Of food, esp. meat or fish: extremely fresh. Also of flesh: showing no signs of decomposition; uncorrupted.
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the world > food and drink > food > food otherwise characterized > [adjective] > fresh or not preserved
fresheOE
saltlessa1398
callerc1480
insulsed1598
c1480 (a1400) SS. Cosmas & Damian l. 360 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 302 In þe kirkȝard ȝestrewen wes lad ane ethiope, & ȝet his flesche is caloure Inucht & als fres.
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2127 in Poems (1981) 81 Ane syde off salmond, as it wair, And callour.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. xii. 110 The recent spreith and fresch and callour pray.
1633 Breadalbane Coll. Documents & Lett. (Edinb. Reg. House) No. 498 That ȝow will give ordour that it [sc. venison] may be speidilie carried for keiping it callour and fresche.
1666 J. Nicoll Diary (1836) 452 Fresch, callour, and ungouttit herring.
1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. (new ed.) I. 167 Caller Nowt-feet in a Plate.
1818 S. E. Ferrier Marriage II. xi. 133 Gin ye had brought me a leg o' gude mutton, or a cauler sawmont, there would hae been some sense in't.
1825 D. M. Moir Mansie Wauch in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 671/1 Naething had we but the cauler new-laid eggs.
1862 Macmillan's Mag. Oct. 501 The Newhaven fish-wife..shouting ‘Caller herrings!’ or ‘Wha'll buy my caller cod?’
1920 C. Murray In Country Places 29 I fain would dook in Dee aince mair An' clatter doon the Market stair,—O the caller dilse an' partans there!
1989 M. Spark in New Yorker 11 Sept. 40/3 ‘Caller herrin'’ meant fresh herring.
2015 W. Hershaw Postcairds fae Woodwick Mill 35 Why screigh aa day for bonnie caller herrin?
2. Of air, water, etc.: fresh and cool; (of a room, bed, etc.) well-aired; free from mustiness.
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a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. Prol. 87 The callour ayr, penetratyve and puyr.
1599 A. Hume Hymnes 16 The riuers fresh, the callor streames.
1659 A. Hay Diary (1901) 29 This was a tollerable good day. A very fair caller day.
1729 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. I. 78 When e'er the Sun grows high and warm, We'll to the cauler Shade remove.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 77 Behind the door a calour heather bed.
1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. vi. 148 Queer tirlie-wirlie holes, that..keep the stair as caller as a kail-blade.
1884 Good Words May 326/1 You ha'e the caller air, the caller earth; an' they're aye healthy.
1891 Allan's Tyneside Songs (rev. ed.) 409 Praise steem-boat trips an' caller air.
1934 J. M. Caie Kindly North 21 I' the yaird, richt clean an' caller, Smells the yird the beadle turns.
1998 L. Forbes Turning Fresh Eye 4 I remember you In the caller air of Etive side.
3. Healthy, vigorous. Now rare.In early use in similes and metaphors alluding to sense 1. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Aberdeenshire, Linlithgow, and Lanarkshire in 1938.
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the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > healthy
wholeeOE
isoundOE
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ferec1175
soundc1175
fish-wholea1225
forthlyc1230
steadfasta1300
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halec1330
quartc1330
well-faringc1330
well-tempered1340
well-disposeda1398
wealyc1400
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mighty?a1475
quartful?c1475
good1527
wholesomea1533
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healthful1550
healthy1552
hearty1552
healthsome1563
well-affected?1563
disposed1575
as sound as a bell1576
firm1577
well-conditioned1580
sound1605
unvaletudinary1650
all right1652
valid1652
as sound as a (alsoany) roach1655
fair-like1663
hoddy1664
wanton1674
stout?1697
trig1704
well-hained1722
sprack1747
caller1754
sane1755
finely1763
bobbish1780
cleverly1784
right1787
smart1788
fine1791
eucratic1795
nobbling1825
as right as a trivet1835
first rate1841
in fine, good, high, etc., feather1844
gay1855
sprackish1882
game ball1905
abled1946
well-toned1952
a hundred per cent1960
oke1960
the world > health and disease > [adjective] > of health: good > fresh or vigorous
vigorousc1330
frikea1400
freck?a1513
flourishing?1555
flush1604
caller1754
yauld1787
strengthful1830
beany1852
pithsome1864
1754 R. Forbes Jrnl. London to Portsmouth in tr. Ovid Ajax his Speech (new ed.) 29 Bat the third [girl] wis a cauller, swack bit o' beef.
1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 6 She..was..As clear and calour as a water trout.
1801 W. Beattie Fruits Time Parings 4 She's just as cawler as a trout Tho' five an' fifty.
1886 ‘G. Temple’ Britta 34 Dere was twa young birds in't the last time I gaed doun—twa yallow caller things, about da size o' hens.
1922 O. Douglas Ann & her Mother vi. 68 Robbie was such a caller baby, so fat and good-natured and thriving.
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