purler
/ˈpəːlə
/noun British informal
A headlong fall: the horse went a purler at the last fence...
- What the annoyance it was, was the ironing board coming a right purler as the flex wrapped itself around its legs.
- Glenn McGrath's pre-match purler meant a surprise call-up for Michael Kasprowicz: ‘Yeah, it was a pretty amazing day all round,’ he admitted.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from dialect purl 'upset, overturn'.
Rhymes
- insistent
- insistently
- in situ
- in small doses
- insobriety
- insofar
- in so far as
- (in) so far as (or that)
- insol.
- insolation
- insole
- insolence
- insolent
- insolently
- insolubilise
- insolubility
- insolubilize
- insoluble
- insolubly
- insolvable
- insolvency
- insolvent
- in so many words
- in someone's bad (or good) books
- in someone's black books