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GROWLERS

"GROWLERS" is a plural of: growler.

Date "GROWLERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references)


Specialty Definition: GROWLERS

DomainDefinition

Literature

Growlers and Crawlers. The fourwheel cabs; called "growlers" from the surly and discontented manners of their drivers, and "crawlers" from their slow pace
"Taken as a whole, the average drivers of hansom cabs ... are smart, intelligent men, sober, honest, and hardworking. ... They have little ... in common with the obtrusive, surly, besotted drivers of the `growlers' and `crawlers.' " - Nineteenth Century, March, 1893, p. 473. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: GROWLERS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

growlers

7

growlers pub

5

florida growlers west

3

beer growlers

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: GROWLERS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-g-l-o-r-r-s-w"

-1 letter: glowers, growers, growler, reglows, regrows.

-2 letters: glower, grower, growls, lowers, oglers, reglow, regrow, rogers, rowels, rowers, slower, sorrel, worser.

-3 letters: glows, goers, gores, gorse, growl, grows, loges, lores, loser, lower, lowes, lowse, ogler, ogles, ogres, orles, resow, roger, roles, rowel, rower, serow, sorel, sorer, sower, swore, worse.

-4 letters: egos, ergo, ergs, eros, errs, gels.

 Words containing the letters "e-g-l-o-r-r-s-w"
 

+3 letters: glassworker.

 

+4 letters: glassworkers.

 

+5 letters: woolgatherers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: GROWLERS


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 52 4F 57 4C 45 52 53

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01010010 01001111 01010111 01001100 01000101 01010010 01010011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#82 &#79 &#87 &#76 &#69 &#82 &#83

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0052 004F 0057 004C 0045 0052 0053

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4152495746395253

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Expressions: Internet
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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