bellower

English

Etymology

From bellow +‎ -er.

Noun

bellower (plural bellowers)

1. One who bellows.
   • 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^[2], London, page 56:

     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.

   • 1794, Robert Jephson, Roman Portraits, London: G.G. and J. Robinson, lines 558-561, p. 38,^[3]

     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;

   • 1838 March – 1839 October, Charles Dickens, “chapter 41”, in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1839, →OCLC:

     ‘A—hem!’ cried the same voice; and that, not in the tone of an ordinary clearing of the throat, but in a kind of bellow, which woke up all the echoes in the neighbourhood, and was prolonged to an extent which must have made the unseen bellower quite black in the face.

   • 2016 October 10, Brad Wheeler, “Roger Waters, The Who get political at Desert Trip”, in The Globe and Mail:

     Mic-swinging lead bellower Roger Daltrey stuck to singing, while sometime-vocalist Pete Townshend proved his guitar game was as strong as his aptitude and willingness for pithy, insolent commentary.

2. (obsolete, colloquial) A town crier.

Translations

one who bellows

• Finnish: karjuja (fi), mölähtelijä
• Latin: bovinātor m

Anagrams

• borewell, rebellow, wellbore