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English
Etymology
From bellow + -er.
Noun
bellower (plural bellowers)
- 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, 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,
- 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.
- (obsolete, colloquial) A town crier.[1]
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- ^ Francis Grose, A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, London: S. Hooper, 2nd edition, 1788.
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