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howler
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Howler \Howl"er\, n.
One who howls.
(Zo["o]l.) Any South American monkey of the genus Mycetes. Many species are known. They are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1832, "animal that howls," agent noun from howl (v.). Meaning "glaring blunder, ridiculous mistake" is first recorded 1890.
Wiktionary
n. 1 That which howls, especially an animal which howl, such as a wolf or a howler monkey. 2 A person hired to howl at a funeral
WordNet
n. a joke that seems extremely funny [syn: belly laugh, sidesplitter, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot]
monkey of tropical South American forests having a loud howling cry [syn: howler monkey]
a glaring blunder
Wikipedia
Howler may refer to:
- Howler (band), a band from Minneapolis, Minnesota
- The Howler, a roller coaster at Holiday World in Santa Claus, Indiana
- The Howler (video game), a video game
- Howler (Animorphs), a fictional alien species from the Animorphs setting
- Howler, a type of magic object from the Harry Potter series
- Howler (mascot), the mascot of the Arizona Coyotes
- Howler, a kind of mathematical fallacy that produces a correct result in spite of incorrect logic
- Howler (error) a glaring blunder, typically an amusing one.
- Howlers, fictional creatures from the PlayStation 3 game Resistance: Fall of Man
- Howler, original name of Velociraptor Screech from The Land Before Time TV series
- Hewlêr, the Kurdish name for the city of Arbil, Iraq
- Howler monkey, among the largest of the New World monkeys
- Howler tone, another name for off-hook tone, a tone alerting subscribers to the receiver having been left off the hook
- Howlers, strong omnivorous creatures which is mutated from cat family in Metro 2033
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the howler is an outsider from planes dominated by evil forces, e.g... the lower planes. It resembles a furless monkey crossed with a sickly dog, and has a vaguely human-like face. It is grey in color, with the slightest hints of violet. For no apparent reason, its shoulders jut sharply up in ugly extremities. Growing along its back and from its front legs, are sharp quills.
A' howler' is a glaring blunder, typically an amusing one.
The Oxford English Dictionary defines howler, "3.3 slang. Something 'crying', 'clamant', or excessive; spec. a glaring blunder, esp. in an examination, etc.", and gives the earliest usage example in 1872. Eric Partridge's Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English says; the 1951 edition of Partridge defined it in part as: "... A glaring (and amusing) blunder: from before 1890; ... also, a tremendous lie ... Literally something that howls or cries for notice, or perhaps ... by way of contracting howling blunder."
Another common interpretation of this usage is that a howler is a mistake fit to make one howl with laughter.
Howler is an indie rock band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The group consists of Jordan Gatesmith on lead guitar and vocals, Ian Nygaard on guitar, Yayo Trujillo on bass and Hiram Sevilla on drums.
Howler has received international acclaim, most notably from NME, which named Howler their No. 3 Best New Band of 2011 and included Jordan Gatesmith in their 2011 Cool List. The band has also played festivals like SXSW, The Great Escape, Reading & Leeds and Rock the Garden.
Usage examples of "howler".
There were some damn good fishermen here, but Richie had already boated sixty-three fish, while the total howlers caught by the other twenty-three entrants was only sixty.
Howlers trumpeted in their midst, and the earth seemed to groan beneath their feet while clouds of gree whirled above the throng.
The police subsequently announced that the old man was an ace himself, and moreover a notorious criminal, that he was responsible for the murders of Kid Dinosaur and the Howler, the attempted murder of the Turtle, the attack on Aces High, the battle over the East River, the ghastly blood rites performed at the Cloisters, and a whole range of lesser crimes.
For the last sixty or seventy years, this great bully, science, a sort of Gradgrind and Bounderby rolled into one, has been bragging and blustering and pretending to know everything and telling its grandmother how to suck eggs, and coming the most tremendous howlers on every possible subject.
Breakfast was punctuated by the shrieks and cries of howler monkeys, hill mynahs and Moluccan cockatoos.
In the Amazon, in recent times, silent visits from Marita had been plenty, so long as he had his weekly trips to Angamos to play his Quena flute with the Red Howler band.
Using lights and howlers, the Godseye troopers quickly pinned htm down.
He knew exactly what he wanted: a hook to reach him and get him out of here and swing him to safety, and a jet-rotor with blasters and howlers, to strafe and plummet and hover.
His great fear now was that he might burst into tears if anyone threatened him, and to calm himself he fantasized again about how he planned to destroy these people, first deafening them with howlers, and then blinding them with lightning bolts, and then burning them down, one by one.
The howlers had started, deafening them, and the sound made them go small and look very compact.
Cairo are attended by singers and howlers, and the performances of these people woke me in the early morning, and prevented me from remaining in ignorance of what was going on in the street below.
We did not have even one carpet since Booboo knocked Howler and Tobo down.
Others, like gibbons, howlers, red spider monkeys and cebus, drop branches and nuts on the invaders.
The incredibly dangerous apprentice shapeshifter Lisa Deale Bowalk, trapped in the form of a black leopard, had been carried onto the plain in a cage, as had the prisoners Longshadow and Howler.
The night sounds of the jungle began to build around him: the screams of the howler monkeys, the rustles and chirps and coughs of the night denizens as they went about their business.