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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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aka Tuppence, lady-garden, front bottom

monster;926928 wrote:

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Have we recently watched a certain episode of "Top Gear"?

Growler = half gallon of beer.

Gravdigr;926933 wrote:

Have we recently watched a certain episode of "Top Gear"?

Nope. Your definition, please?

Well, I went where Bruce went, and, I expect Big V, and maybe Foot, to go...The large container for drink and spirits.

But...

On a recently watched episode of Top Gear, (Series 17 Episode 2, in The News segment, it's hilarious) the boys were discussing a beautiful car with the unfortunate name of The Growler. And then they proceeded to discuss, hilariously, the definition provided by Sundae, complete with several puns.

The car:

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How did you come by it, meaning the reason for this discussion?

There may be a sandwich type thing called a growler. Maybe.

I believe the lower-pitched attention getting device on a police car or fire truck, the part that ain't horn, nor siren, is called a growler.

i know there was a comedy skit in the 90s ( might have been the naughties) where a female celeb (not the actual celeb - an impression of) kept offering to show her growler.

I believe that the similar term for lady parts is "snapper".

Lorraine chase was it not, Dana?

Grav, we sell them. Normally I am kept away from the customers in a safe back office where I can enlighten my fellow store support staff about British Euphemisms to our hearts content without fear of offending most. However.... today I was stuck in the register area for a while are was party to the chatty middle-age male cashier discussing his female middle-aged customer's growler, and how she used to go for a Grizzly peek.

It was all I could do to keep my giggles stifled and my middle-aged bladder from emptying itself right there. My 24yo officemate/partner in grime I believe remains unconvinced that anyone but me would think of anything other than a beer jug, so I told her I'd poll the world for the first definition that came to people's minds.

(Grizzly Peak is a local brewery)

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



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

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A growler is a big bottle of beer.

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 :lol: (full license due next month, then people with be able to drink a pint while they shop)

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."

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

monster;926980 wrote:

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.

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 ...

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.

That *is* funny!

Gravdigr;926943 wrote:

There may be a sandwich type thing called a growler. Maybe.

I believe the lower-pitched attention getting device on a police car or fire truck, the part that ain't horn, nor siren, is called a growler.

Isn't growler the name for the communication device onboard a submarine or other naval vessel? (not looking it up, that is).

I only know of the Marine's ridiculous Jeep that I posted about here a few years ago.

monster;926980 wrote:

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 :lol: (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. :beer:

Urban Dictionary further specifies a type of vag:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Growler

I must have not encountered this type before

Clodfobble;926983 wrote:

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).

Clodfobble;926983 wrote:

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?

Small chunks of iceberg.

BigV;927010 wrote:

Isn't growler the name for the communication device onboard a submarine or other naval vessel? (not looking it up, that is).

It's *also* a "Sound-powered telephone", aka, "growler".

The microphone transducer converts sound pressure from a user's voice into a minute electrical current, which is then converted back to sound by a transducer at the other end. The most significant distinction between ordinary telephones and sound-powered telephones is in the operation of the microphone. Since the microphones used in most telephones are designed to modulate a supplied electrical current they cannot be used in sound-powered transducers. Rather, most sound-powered telephones use a dynamic microphone. A common approach to transducer design is the balanced armature design because of its efficiency. The number of simultaneous listeners is limited because there is no amplification of the signal.

A sound-powered telephone circuit can be as simple as two handsets connected together with a pair of wires, which is defined as the "talk" portion of the circuit. Talk circuits can be realized over a pair of wires that are 50 km (30 miles) long. More complex circuits include magnetos, selector switches and bells to allow one user to select and call another, which is defined as the "calling" portion of the circuit. The voice communication ("talk") circuit is completely separate from the "call" circuit, allowing communication to take place without external power.

Sound-powered telephones are widely used on naval vessels. A typical example on a U.S. Navy ship is the "JL" circuit which is used by the lookouts to report visual contacts to the pilot house and the Combat Information Center (CIC). In this case there would be five stations on the circuit (stern lookout, port lookout, starboard lookout, pilot house and CIC).

Now *that's* a big boat.

Carruthers;927040 wrote:

Small chunks of iceberg.

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

OMG I forgot about that too. And yet I was looking through my book of Ponting's photos just the other day.

Where I come from "Growler" was a term used for the not nicest looking girl who was in a bunch on a night out, usually at a pub or disco (now there's an old expression)
Usually moaned at by one of the crowd of boys out on the pull who comes out with the legend

"How do I always get lumbered with the Growler" :D

thanks. I think I've heard that before, just forgotten about it

I looked it up in the dictionary I keep at work today, and apparently it can also be something to do with magnetic flux. And Google says it's an attack aircraft. That's a lot of definitions!

A lot of growlers

I wonder what the collective noun is?

let's coin one.

A minge of growlers?

BigV;927045 wrote:

It's *also* a "Sound-powered telephone", aka, "growler".



Now *that's* a big boat.

taken today on the ferry

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monster;927580 wrote:

...Google says it's an attack aircraft.

I'm sure they're prolly referring to the EA-18 Growler, the "electronic warfare" version of the Hornet.

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yeah I was just too lazy to be more specific :D

Yep. They're big in this area. Whidbey Island NAS was the first place the Navy based them.

Operational history

The first Growler for fleet use was officially accepted by VAQ-129 "Vikings" at NAS Whidbey Island, on 3 June 2008.

monster;926928 wrote:

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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BigV;926975 wrote:

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.

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Oh hey, I didn't realize that was the style of bottle. I buy growlers of apple juice on a regular basis. :)

So you're saying your growler is less intoxicating than Grav's?

Uh, I don't have a growler in this fight.

Perhaps you refer to BigV's growler?

I've never had an American growler.
Although I have gone down on an Australian woman.

So now we sell:

I have a Hydro flask growler. My big sis gave it to me this Christmas. It's amazing. 48 hours with ice water in it there was still ice. 60 hours, the water was still cold. They cost $67. They're worth it.

lumberjim;963467 wrote:

I have a Hydro flask growler. My big sis gave it to me this Christmas. It's amazing. 48 hours with ice water in it there was still ice. 60 hours, the water was still cold. They cost $67. They're worth it.

Is it like a tervis tumbler?

I don't think so



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