Thesaurus / howler
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Meanwhile, the idea that kids and chores would somehow fit into a standard workweek is a howler.
CAROLYN HAX: WIFE BECOMES AT-HOME MOM, HUSBAND QUITS ALL ‘HOUSE AND KID STUFF’CAROLYN HAXJANUARY 18, 2022WASHINGTON POST“No matter the cause, she moves with such skill, she seems to know secrets I never will,” goes one of the many howlers in David Bryan and Joe DiPietro’s lay-it-on-thick score.
IN TIME FOR THANKSGIVING, BROADWAY SERVES UP A TURKEY: ‘DIANA’ THE MUSICALPETER MARKSNOVEMBER 18, 2021WASHINGTON POSTOn one cattle ranch, he remembers, one partner knew that there was a howler monkey living on a forest island alongside several dozen workers.
THIS WILD GRASSLAND IN THE AMAZON ISN’T AS UNTOUCHED AS IT SEEMSPHILIP KIEFEROCTOBER 7, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEI remember, some years ago, how merrily you used to laugh about the "calamity-howler," whose habitat at that time was Kansas.
HUMANLY SPEAKINGSAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERSThe old man was alive during the telephone call from the Grand Central, and dead when the howler was put on for the first time.
WHISPERING WIRESHENRY LEVERAGEThe telephone call at five minutes past twelve, and the howler put on soon afterward, checks up.
WHISPERING WIRESHENRY LEVERAGEShe came a fearful howler over a book which she herself has read, to my knowledge, within the last fortnight.
SOME PERSONS UNKNOWNE. W. HORNUNGA reiterated word of the convulsive howler on the dock had stuck in the Tyro's mind.
LITTLE MISS GROUCHSAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMSStentor, stent′or, n. a very loud-voiced herald in the Iliad, hence any person with a remarkably loud voice: the ursine howler.
CHAMBERS'S TWENTIETH CENTURY DICTIONARY (PART 4 OF 4: S-Z AND SUPPLEMENTS)VARIOUSUsually the howler is detached by the switch hook during conversation from a station.
CYCLOPEDIA OF TELEPHONY AND TELEGRAPHY, VOL. 2KEMPSTER MILLERWORDS RELATED TO HOWLER
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