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growler

  • /ˈɡɹaʊlə/ UK
  • /ˈɡɹaʊlɚ/ US

Rhymes with -aʊlə(ɹ)

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From growl + -er. Sense "jug" is 19th century American slang, of uncertain origin.

noun growlers

  1. A person, creature or thing that growls.
  2. historical, slang A horse-drawn cab with four wheels. He had evidently studied the driver of a London growler, and produced a good sound readable type of man.
  3. A small iceberg or ice floe which is barely visible over the surface of the water. I was in China and North America and South America. I seen icebergs plenty, growlers.
  4. Australia, Canada, US, informal A kind of jug, often with a handle, used to carry beer and preserve carbonation. […] their favoring breeze has the stink of nickel whiskey on its breath, and their sea is a growler of lager and ale […]
  5. UK, Yorkshire, dialectal A pork pie. Now, on first impression, a pork pie - or a ‘growler’ if you're from Yorkshire - looks like a delicious snack.
  6. UK, slang The vulva. On our first meeting he'd asked me if I dyed my hair. I told him I did and his follow up^([sic]) question had been the much under rated^([sic]), "What colour's your growler then?"
  7. US, dialectal A fish of the perch family, abundant in North American rivers, so named from the sound it emits.
  8. A device for checking electrical equipment for short circuits etc. Includes voltmeters, ammeters, circuit testers, armature tester (external growler), field tester, (internal growler), coil and condenser tester, etc.

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@misc{growler_2026,
  title = {growler},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/growler},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}