howler / ˈhaʊ lər /

⚽高中词汇嚎叫者哈勒嚎啕大哭嚎叫声

howler 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a person, animal, or thing that howls.
  2. Also called howler monkey. any large, prehensile-tailed tropical American monkey of the genus Alouatta, the males of which make a howling noise: some species are endangered.
  3. a mistake, especially an embarrassing one in speech or writing, that evokes laughter; a very humorous mistake or a funny blunder.
  4. Informal. something that makes a piercing and often prolonged noise, as an alarm.

howler 近义词

howler

等同于 inaccuracy

howler

等同于 slip

howler

等同于 belly laugh

howler

等同于 blunder

howler

等同于 error

howler

等同于 gaffe

更多howler例句

  1. The latest is maybe the biggest howler yet, bigger than even the ad that mistook Duke basketball players for UK Wildcats.
  2. His portrait of Izzy Yanay, a partner in the highly regarded Hudson Valley Foie Gras, is a howler.
  3. I remember, some years ago, how merrily you used to laugh about the "calamity-howler," whose habitat at that time was Kansas.
  4. The old man was alive during the telephone call from the Grand Central, and dead when the howler was put on for the first time.
  5. The telephone call at five minutes past twelve, and the howler put on soon afterward, checks up.
  6. She came a fearful howler over a book which she herself has read, to my knowledge, within the last fortnight.
  7. A reiterated word of the convulsive howler on the dock had stuck in the Tyro's mind.