squaller
English edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɔːlə(ɹ)
- Homophone: squalor (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
Noun edit
squaller (plural squallers)
- One who squalls; a crier, complainer, or bad singer.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 200:
- A conviction of Bedlam broken loose scattered Bradly's wits. Edmund circled the uproar with hackles up, craving a signal from Bradly to nip this old squaller by her broomstick legs. Cora kept edging off, her frown dark with impotent rebellion.