Bowser vs Eep - What's the difference?
bowser | eep |
A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.
* 2001 , Michael Gordon, Reconciliation: A Journey ,
* 2008 , Adrian Scott, The Road Gets Better from Here ,
* 2010 , David Nichols, Green Fields, Brown Fields, New Fields , footnote citing 1926 report,
A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.
* 1962 , The All England Law Reports , Volume 3,
* 2003 , Andy Saunders, No 43 ‘Fighting Cocks’ Squadron ,
(British) A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient.
* 1999 May 12, Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard) ,
* 2000 , Louis L. Jacobs, Quest for the African Dinosaurs: Ancient Roots of the Modern World ,
* 2010 , P. Dissanayake, N. Weragala, V. Smakhtin, Environmental Flow Assessment: Recent Examples from Sri Lanka'', Alexandra Evans, K. Jinapala (editors), ''Proceedings of the National Conference on Water, Food Security and Climate Change in Sri Lanka , Volume 2,
(Irish, slang, used in the vocative) A derogatory term of address for a person similar to buffoon or imbecile.
(onomatopoeia) An expression of surprise or dismay.
* 1993 , Bart's Inner Child [http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F05.html]
* 2000, , Ready, Okay!
* 2000, John Palisano, Journey Through Time [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0738826049&id=1LFb_NU01VgC&pg=PA98&lpg=PA98&dq=%22eep+*+said%22&sig=UC6HjuFNxoIPrw7f1drNJwIercc]
A short scream or yelp.
* 1853 , Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, and John Holmes Agnew (eds.), ,
* 1962', Jet Screamer, '''', "' Eep opp ork ah ah! And that means 'I love you'!" (but, according to Elroy Jetson in the episode "A Date with Jet Screamer", he says Judy Jetson wrote it for him, "eep opp ork ah-ah" means "meet me tonight")[http://www.tvacres.com/music_songs_jetsons.htm] (Note: this reference is incorrect.)
* 2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1590030257&id=-cGTbRvPCJEC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22+eeping%22&sig=ragYUChNWh5WdjH52ItIbJjYD3o]
To vocalise a short scream or yelp; to produce an eep.
* 2002, Randy Peyser, Crappy to Happy [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN1590030257&id=-cGTbRvPCJEC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22+eeping%22&sig=ragYUChNWh5WdjH52ItIbJjYD3o]
* 2002, Chris Crutcher, “The Other Pin,” in Athletic Shorts [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0060507837&id=BhSYywd2SqMC&pg=PA75&lpg=PA75&dq=%22he+eeps%22&sig=Lp5m2rWEorvsRu5gjHTu4R1bfV4]
* 2003, John Treadwell Nichols, The Voice of the Butterfly [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&vid=ISBN0811839907&id=OdDs928s-PwC&pg=PA160&lpg=PA160&dq=%22she+eeped%22&sig=mtJl10KCTmZxASjLdTwzUg_V3a0]
As nouns the difference between bowser and eep
is that bowser is a fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station while eep is a short scream or yelp.As an interjection eep is
(onomatopoeia) an expression of surprise or dismay.As a verb eep is
to vocalise a short scream or yelp; to produce an eep.bowser
English
Noun
(en noun)page 18,
- ‘Kids are breaking into the service station bowsers' at night, draining out the dregs of petrol from the ' bowser hoses, wandering the streets sniffing petrol from Coke bottles all night,’ he said.
page 165,
- I needed at least fifteen litres more petrol in my tank to reach the next major settlement and, unlike China, there were no shiny new gas stations here with bowsers of different types of petrol to choose from, nor were there pretty young gas girls in nice uniforms ready to fill ‘er up – in fact there were no gas stations here at all; petrol was bought and sold strictly off market in private transactions.
page 309,
- The Moree Municipal Council decided to devote the revenue derived from the rent of the bowser petrol pumps within the municipality for this year, which amounted to forty guineas.
page 435,
- The bowsers then go out to the aircraft and supply them with petrol.
page 107,
- By the time No 43 Sqn was given permission to land it was quite dark, and so to assist the pilots in what were to be difficult night landings two petrol bowsers' were parked to ‘illuminate’ the runway with their dim blackout headlights. Perhaps, all things considered, the use of petrol ' bowsers for this particular task was not exactly wise.
page 588,
- Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as hon. Shidie has said, there is no water bowser' in Garissa and he categorically said that there is a water '''bowser''' to supply water to the people of Kulan. Could he give the registration number of this water ' bowser which is supplying water to the people of Kulan?
page 112,
- The water bowser needed filling.
page 29,
- Due to increasing levels of water pollution arising from low flows, water becomes unsuitable for bathing during this period and is satisfied by bowser water supply.
Anagrams
* *eep
English
(wikipedia eep)Interjection
(en interjection)- Hot-dog vendor: “Get him!”
- Bart: “Eep .”
- Then she ripped the door off its hinges and bent the flimsy metal in half between her hands.
- “Eep ,” I said.
- On the opposite side a bottle crashed. Shards twinkle screamed in a circle around her head. “Eep ,” she said, breathed, and nearly screamed.
Noun
(en noun)page 460,
- "Then the peepers begin on a high key, with a singularly sweet and lucid voice, somewhere betwixt a silver-whistle and a glass-bell, smacking little of the mid: 'Eep!-eep-eep-eep! ee ee-ee! eepee! eepee-peepee! peep-eep! eepepee! eepepee! eepepee!' accompanied by a few trills long continued..."
- She encouraged them to express their teeny-tiniest selves with an “eep .”
Verb
(en verb)- Now there are fulfilled women happily “eeping ” all over the Bay Area. I swear to you this is true.
- Petey’s voice rises to that preadolescent pitch it always hits when he feels his life spinning out of control. “Dues are what Boy Scouts pay,” he eeps.
- Before I could answer, a tiny green krait dropped out of Tristan’s nostril and slithered swiftly toward Susan’s sandaled feet: She eeped , dropped my arm, and fled for her life.