Howler vs Undefined - What's the difference?
howler | undefined |
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 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
Lacking a definition or value.
(mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.
As a noun howler
is that which howls, especially an animal which howls, such as a wolf or a howler monkey.As an adjective undefined is
lacking a definition or value.howler
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Noun
(en noun)- A howler is a glaring mistake, a mistake that cries out to be noticed.
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Adjective
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