Dwellar Dictionary

[DanaC]

You can take the girl out of Britain... ;p



I just googled it, it was Lorraine Kelly. Bo Selecta

[BigV]

A growler is a big bottle of beer.

[BigV]

Originally Posted by monster

Fellar Dwellars,

please share with me (and the world) the first (and then any subsequent) definition of the word below in large caps that pops into your head. I know you have amazing google, linking and c&p skills, but I'd like to know what comes to your wonderful mind. It would be especially fantastic if you could reply before reading the definitions of others. TIA
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GROWLER

Originally Posted by BigV

A growler is a big bottle of beer.

Here are a couple of my growlers. The one on the left was a Father's Day gift to me from my BelovedDaughter (Go Cougs!) and the one on the right is one of a dozen or so that I've purchased from the local brewery supplies store (named, appropriately, The Cellar). This one's empty at the moment, but most of the others are full of mead.

[monster]

Chase/Kelly they're all the same when it comes to growlers, I'm sure.

Curious, Dna, Sundae and Caruhers if you had really heard of the beer thing.

Our Growler Filling Station keeps me amused no end, especially as it's Ginger Beer at the moment (full license due next month, then people with be able to drink a pint while they shop)

[BigV]

Originally Posted by monster

Chase/Kelly they're all the same when it comes to growlers, I'm sure.

Curious, Dna, Sundae and Caruhers if you had really heard of the beer thing.

Our Growler Filling Station keeps me amused no end, especially as it's Ginger Beer at the moment (full license due next month, then people with be able to drink a pint while they shop)

Local Growler filling stations.

Local ginger beer (perhaps in a growler).

Beer is *big* in Seattle. I learned from this article, The New Guide to Washington Beer, that only California has more breweries than Washington. This is most obvious in my neighborhood, Ballard. I love beer.

[Clodfobble]

To me--and I'm quite sure no one else thinks this, and I'd never use it out loud in this way, but for whatever reason it was my immediate instinct as I read the word... To me, the first definition that appeared in my mind was of a giant, turbulent, gurgling shit.

As in, "Oh man, I just left a growler in there."

[Gravdigr]

"Careful, mate. She's a growler."

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

To me--and I'm quite sure no one else thinks this,

It's not just you. It's what first occurred to me, too. My family didn't use the terminology, but somehow we heard that some acquaintance did, and we had a good laugh. That's the only context I've heard the word in. (Other than, say, describing a dog or something).

[monster]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

To me--and I'm quite sure no one else thinks this, and I'd never use it out loud in this way, but for whatever reason it was my immediate instinct as I read the word... To me, the first definition that appeared in my mind was of a giant, turbulent, gurgling shit.

As in, "Oh man, I just left a growler in there."

I did find a definition relating to turd on my googles. I already lent my spare profanisaurus to the Graphic Artist and my first one is buried in a pile here somewhere. Anyone know what Roger Mellie has to say on this topic?

[Carruthers]

Small chunks of iceberg.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

Small chunks of iceberg.

That's right, I forgot about that. SCORE!

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by monster

Chase/Kelly they're all the same when it comes to growlers, I'm sure.

Hahahaha. Actually, I initially posted that it was 'the other Lorraine' before changing it to clarify.

I had never heard the beer thing before, no.

And: 'Growler filling station' is frikkin hilarious. Heeeelarious.

[limey]

I'd have taken it to mean some sort of digestive disorder which may or may not result in an urgent visit to the loo ...

[Sundae]

Never heard of the beer reference either.
And it would take a very long time for another meaning to take hold and for it to stop making me giggle.

I still grin at the memory of some of the phonics sessions, where the teacher, trying to make up words would not have quite the same vocabulary as the other TA and me. She dismissed Mook as a made up word, which was just worth a shrug. And then Quim. At which point I had to go into the corner for a little while to recover my composure. Hearing a class of six year olds sounding it out was priceless. No-one mentioned it afterwards, she wasn't known for her happy-go-lucky demeanour.

[BigV]

That *is* funny!