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howler

/hou-ler/US // ˈhaʊ lər //UK // (ˈhaʊlə) //

嚎叫者,哈勒,嚎啕大哭,嚎叫声

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person, animal, or thing that howls.
    • : 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.
    • : a mistake, especially an embarrassing one in speech or writing, that evokes laughter; a very humorous mistake or a funny blunder.
    • : Informal. something that makes a piercing and often prolonged noise, as an alarm.

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Examples

  • The latest is maybe the biggest howler yet, bigger than even the ad that mistook Duke basketball players for UK Wildcats.

  • His portrait of Izzy Yanay, a partner in the highly regarded Hudson Valley Foie Gras, is a howler.

  • I remember, some years ago, how merrily you used to laugh about the "calamity-howler," whose habitat at that time was Kansas.

  • 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.

  • The telephone call at five minutes past twelve, and the howler put on soon afterward, checks up.

  • She came a fearful howler over a book which she herself has read, to my knowledge, within the last fortnight.

  • A reiterated word of the convulsive howler on the dock had stuck in the Tyro's mind.