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"GROWLERS" is a plural of: growler. |
Date "GROWLERS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
growlers | 7 |
growlers pub | 5 |
florida growlers west | 3 |
beer growlers | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 52 4F 57 4C 45 52 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. --- .--. .-.. . .-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01001111 01010111 01001100 01000101 01010010 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R O W L E R S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 004F 0057 004C 0045 0052 0053 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4152495746395253 |
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