SCREAMER • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Screamer

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/skrˈimər/ Listen

noun

Screamer n. (Zool.)

Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidae, and the suborder Palamedeae. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta.

Something so remarkable as to provoke a scream, as of joy. (Slang)

An exclamation mark. (Printer's Slang)

See images of 'Screamer'

Etymology of 'Screamer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Screamer" Quotes from Famous Books

... reproach applied to the industrious farmer, who settled or perched on the resumed portions of a squatter's run, so much to the latter's rage and disgust that he contemptuously likened the farmer to the white-coated, yellow-crested screamer that settles or perches on the trees at the ...

— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris

... float on the air without effort, like the gull and buzzard and harrier and other great soaring land and water birds. But from the time this notion and desire began to affect me I envied most the great crested screamer, an inhabitant then of all the marshes in our vicinity. For here was a bird as big or bigger than a goose, as heavy almost as I was myself, who, when he wished to fly, rose off the ground with tremendous labour, and then as he got ...

— Far Away and Long Ago • W. H. Hudson

... Eurasian, grandiloquently so called, much given to sentimental minstrelsy, juvenile polkas, early coquetry, and early beer, hot curries, loud clothes, bad English, and fast pertness. I never think of them without recalling a precocious ballad-screamer of eight years who was flourished indispensably at every chee-chee hop ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various

... a term of reproach applied to the industrious farmer, who settled or perched on the resumed portions of a squatter's run, so much to the latter's rage and disgust that he contemptuously likened the farmer to the white-coated, yellow-crested screamer that settles or perches on the trees at the edge of ...

— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris