howler in English dictionary

  • howler

    Meanings and definitions of "howler"

    • An animal which howls, such as a wolf or a howler monkey
    • (Chiefly British) A painfully obvious mistake
    • A hilarious joke
    • noun
      That which howls, especially an animal which howls, such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
    • noun
      A person hired to howl at a funeral
    • noun
      A painfully obvious mistake.
    • noun
      A hilarious joke.
    • noun
      A bitterly cold day
    • noun
      A heavy fall, literally or figuratively
    • noun
      A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler, e.g. "Our hansom came a howler"; compare: come a cropper)
    • noun
      A tremendous lie
    • noun
      A fashionably but extravagantly overdressed man, a "howling swell"
    • noun
      A calamity howler is "one that makes dismal predictions of impending disaster"Taylor, D. Wooster. The dust of Frisco Town, dedicated to the calamity howler. Publisher: Paul Elder, San Francisco May be downloaded from: http://archive.org/details/dustoffriscotown00taylrich
    • noun
      a glaring blunder
    • noun
      a joke that seems extremely funny
    • noun
      monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry

    Synonyms of "howler" in English dictionary

    fuckup, laugh, howler monkey are the top synonyms of "howler" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of howler

    • howler ( plural  howlers)
    • howler (plural howlers)
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