howler 的定义
- 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.
howler 近义词
等同于 inaccuracy
等同于 slip
等同于 belly laugh
等同于 blunder
等同于 error
等同于 gaffe
howler 的近义词 11 个
howler 的反义词 1 个
更多howler例句
- 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.