bellowser

English

Etymology

bellows +‎ -er, from bellows (“the lungs”); (life sentence): because people continue to breathe until they die.

Noun

bellowser (plural bellowsers)

1. (slang, obsolete) A sentence of transportation for life.
2. (slang, obsolete) A blow in the pit of the stomach, taking one's breath away.

Related terms

• bellowsed

References

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• bellowers, borewells, rebellows, wellbores