Screamer

Definitions: Screamer

Screamer

Noun

1. Someone who communicates vocally in a very loud voice.

2. A sensational newspaper headline.

3. Gooselike aquatic bird of South America having a harsh trumpeting call.

4. A very hard hit ball.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "screamer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1840. (references)

Computing

Slang

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

Synonyms: Screamer

Crosswords: Screamer

I got a sweater for Christmas... I wanted a screamer or a moaner. (references; author: unknown)

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

Books

• Pursuit of the screamer (reference)

• Screamer Disk (reference)

• Screamer Last of the East Panther (reference)

• The Primal Screamer (reference)

  (more book examples)

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

Engraving published in "Harper's Weekly", July-December 1861 volume, pages 760-761. It depicts Federal warships, under Flag Officer Samuel F. DuPont, USN, bombarding Fort Beauregard (at right) and Fort Walker (at left). The Confederate squadron commanded by Commodore Josiah Tattnall is in the left center distance. Subjects identified below the image bottom are (from left): tug Mercury, Fort Walker, USS Wabash (DuPont's flagship), Screamer (?), USS Susquehanna, CSS Huntsville, Commo. Tattnall, USS Bienville, USS Pembina, USS Seneca, USS Ottawa, USS Unadilla, USS Pawnee, USS Mohican, USS Isaac Smith, USS Curlew, USS Vandalia, USS Penguin, USS Pocahontas, USS Seminole, Fort Beauregard, USS R.B. Forbes and "Rebel Camp".Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I, page 189, depicting Federal ships investigating Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, prior to their successful attack on Confederate fortifications there. Ships and other items identified across the bottom of the print include (from left to right): USS Mercury, with Generals Sherman and Stevens & staff on board; USS Penguin, with Hilton Head Battery beyond; USS Pawnee; Broad River (in distance); CSS Huntress (distance); USS Seneca; steamer Screamer (distance); USS Ottawa with Capt. Rogers & General Wright on board; steamer Everglades (distance, beyond Ottawa; USS Pembina; CSS Lady Davis (distance); Beaufort River (distance); Bay Point Battery (distance); USS Curlew; Confederate camp (distance); USS Isaac Smith.Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I, page 189, depicting Federal ships investigating Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, prior to their successful attack on Confederate fortifications there. Ships and other items identified across the bottom of the print include (from left to right): USS Mercury, with Generals Sherman and Stevens & staff on board; USS Penguin, with Hilton Head Battery beyond; USS Pawnee; Broad River (in distance); CSS Huntress (distance); USS Seneca; steamer Screamer (distance); USS Ottawa with Capt. Rogers & General Wright on board; steamer Everglades (distance, beyond Ottawa; USS Pembina; CSS Lady Davis (distance); Beaufort River (distance); Bay Point Battery (distance); USS Curlew; Confederate camp (distance); USS Isaac Smith.Credit: NAVY.

Line engraving published in "The Soldier in Our Civil War", Volume I, page 189, depicting Federal ships investigating Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, prior to their successful attack on Confederate fortifications there. Ships and other items identified across the bottom of the print include (from left to right): USS Mercury, with Generals Sherman and Stevens & staff on board; USS Penguin, with Hilton Head Battery beyond; USS Pawnee; Broad River (in distance); CSS Huntress (distance); USS Seneca; steamer Screamer (distance); USS Ottawa with Capt. Rogers & General Wright on board; steamer Everglades (distance, beyond Ottawa; USS Pembina; CSS Lady Davis (distance); Beaufort River (distance); Bay Point Battery (distance); USS Curlew; Confederate camp (distance); USS Isaac Smith.Credit: NAVY.

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

Expressions using "screamer": crested screamer ♦ horned screamer. Additional references.

Albanian

titull sensacional, njeri që bërtit, libër sensacional. (various references)

Arabic 

‏عنوان صارخ, ‏شخص مضحك (card). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ужасно смешна история, удивителна, сензационно заглавие, кресльо (pop off, ranter), нещо удивително (caulker, scorcher), птица която крещи, пискун (squeaker, squealer). (various references)

Czech

to, co křièí, ten, který křièí. (various references)

French

personne qui crie, personne désopilante, énorme manchette. (various references)

German

Riesenschlagzeile. (various references)

Greek 

ξεφωνίζων (shrieker), φωνάζων (shouter, squaller, squawker, squealer). (various references)

Hebrew 

צוחן, צרחן (shrieker). (various references)

Hungarian

visító ember. (various references)

Indonesian

peneriak. (various references)

Italian

chi urla, chi strilla, chi grida. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

スクランブル交差点 (adhesive mechanical tint, multiple intersection, screen, screen mode, screen music, screen play, screen process, screening, screentone). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

スクリーマー . (various references)

Manx

screeagheyder (hooter, screecher, squaller, yeller), scragheyder. (various references)

Pig Latin

eamerscray

Portuguese

gritador (brawler), coisa ótima, anhuma. (various references)

Russian 

сенсационный заголовок, восклицательный знак (exclamation mark, exclamation point), потрясающий факт (frustrating things). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

stvar da vrištiš, osoba koja vrišti. (various references)

Spanish

titulares sensacionalistas (scarehead, screaming headlines), tipo muy chistoso, punto de exclamación, obra divertidísima, chiste graciosísimo, chillón (gaudy, harsh, loud, lurid, noisy, screaming, sharp, shrill, startling, tawdry, vocal). (various references)

Turkish

matrak olay, manşet (caption, cuff, frill, heading, headline, streamer, streamer headline, wristband), bağıran kimse (Barker, howler), çok komik durum, çığlık atan kimse. (various references)

Ukranian 

чудовий примірник, крикун (bawler, brayer, crier, loudmouth, roarer, shouter). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người l� m tức cười cái đẹp lạ thường. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "screamer": screamers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Screamer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Mccreamer, sceamer, sceemer, Scleater, screeeeee, screeeeek, Screever. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: amercers, creamers.

-1 letter: amercer, amerces, careers, creamer, creaser, mercers, racemes, reamers, smearer.

-2 letters: ameers, amerce, armers, career, carers, creams, crease, cremes, eraser, macers, mercer, raceme, racers, ramees, reamer, rearms, scarer, scream, seamer, searer.

-3 letters: acmes, acres, ameer, armer, cames, carer, cares, carrs, carse, cease, ceres, crams, cream, creme, erase, escar, macer, maces, marcs, mares, marse, maser, merer, meres, racer, races, ramee, rares, raser, reams, rearm, rears, saree, scare, scram, scree, serac, serer, smear.

-4 letters: aces, acme, acre, arcs, ares, arms, arse, came, cams, care, carr, cars, case, cees, cere, cram, ears, ease, emes, eras, errs, mace, macs, maes, marc, mare, mars, mere, mesa, race, rams, rare, rase, ream, rear, recs, rees, rems, same, scam, scar, seam, sear, seem, seer, seme, sera, sere.

-5 letters: ace, arc, are, arm, ars, cam, car, cee, ear, eme, ems, era, ere, err, ers, mac, mae, mar, mas, ram, ras, rec, ree, rem, res, sac, sae, sea, sec, see, ser.

+1 letter: careerism, embracers, recamiers, sarcomere, screamers.

+2 letters: careerisms, clamberers, creameries, creamwares, embraceors, gramercies, macromeres, mercurates, sarcomeres.

+3 letters: comraderies, crematories, descrambler, embraceries, mercenaries, scaremonger, schwarmerei, scleroderma.

+4 letters: benchwarmers, calorimeters, camaraderies, cameraperson, descramblers, electrograms, embarcaderos, merchandiser, microamperes, microreaders, necromancers, performances, recriminates, remembrances, remonstrance, sabermetrics, scaremongers, schwarmereis, sclerodermas.

+5 letters: adrenochromes, calorimetries, camerapersons, concertmaster, counterstream, craniometries, democratizers, encumbrancers, gimcrackeries, intercompares, mercenariness, merchandisers, mercurialness, meritocracies, remembrancers, remonstrances, saccharimeter, saccharometer, sclerodermata.

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