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Bloomer vs Howler - What's the difference?

bloomer | howler | Related terms |

As nouns the difference between bloomer and howler

is that bloomer is an ironworker while howler is that which howls, especially an animal which howls, such as a wolf or a howler monkey.

As a proper noun Bloomer

is {{surname|lang=en}.

bloomer

English

Etymology 1

From the word bloom'', for an iron ingot, from the Old English word ''bl?ma .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An ironworker.
    • See also
    * Blumer, Bloomer

    Etymology 2

    (bloom).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A circular loaf of white bread.
  • A blooming flower.
  • One who blooms, matures, or develops.
    • She was a late bloomer .

    Etymology 3

    , from the surname of the American woman who sought to introduce this style of dress.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A costume for women, consisting of a short dress with loose trousers gathered around the ankles, and often a broad-brimmed hat.
  • (historical) A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.
    • Derived terms
    * bloomers

    Anagrams

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    howler

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which howls, especially an animal which howls, such as a wolf or a howler monkey.
  • A person hired to howl at a funeral
    • Other senses are derivatives of the intensifier "howling", Beale, Paul; Partridge, Eric (1984). A dictionary of slang and unconventional English: colloquialisms and catch-phrases, solecisms and catachreses, nicknames, and vulgarisms. New York: Macmillan. ISBN 0-02-594980-2 as in "howling wilderness", (Deuteronomy 32:10)Holy Bible: King James Version, The Scofield Study Bible III, Duradera Zipper Black. Oxford University Press, USA. 2005. ISBN 0-19-527867-4.
  • A painfully obvious mistake.
  • * 2009 , Tom Burton, Quadrant , November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 78:
    • A howler is a glaring mistake, a mistake that cries out to be noticed.
  • A hilarious joke.
  • A bitterly cold day
  • A heavy fall, literally or figuratively
  • A serious accident (especially to come a howler or go a howler, e.g. "Our hansom came a howler"; compare: come a cropper)
  • A tremendous lie
  • A fashionably but extravagantly overdressed man, a "howling swell"
  • 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

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