Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who calls, in any sense of the verb; especially, one who pays a short complimentary visit.
- Cool; refreshing: as, a caller breeze
- Fresh; in proper season: applied chiefly to fish: as, caller herrings.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who calls.
- adjective Cool; refreshing; fresh.
- adjective Fresh; in good condition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The person who made a telephone
call . - noun A
visitor . - noun bingo The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.
- noun computing, programming The
function thatcalls another (thecallee ). - noun A whistle or similar item used to call foxes.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the person initiating a telephone call
- adjective fresh
- adjective providing coolness
- noun a social or business visitor
- noun someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice
- noun the person who convenes a meeting
- noun an investor who buys a call option
- noun the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands
- noun a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance
Etymologies
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Examples
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The name caller is frustrated and wants you to return to being more "agreeable."
Daylle Deanna Schwartz: I've Been Called Worse Daylle Deanna Schwartz 2011
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The name caller is frustrated and wants you to return to being more "agreeable."
Daylle Deanna Schwartz: I've Been Called Worse Daylle Deanna Schwartz 2011
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More startled than hurt, the name caller began to cry.
American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007
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More startled than hurt, the name caller began to cry.
American Legacy C. David Heymann 2007
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When he says his caller is a blockhead with tampons in her ears, he really means HE is a blockhead who refuses to listen to any point of view that disagrees with his own.
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If the caller is a fundraiser, ask for whom they are collecting money.
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If the caller is a fundraiser, ask for whom they are collecting money.
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The availability of Social Security numbers makes it easier to convince a customer service agent that the caller is the account holder.
01/08/2006 2006
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The 'caller' is claiming to be a COMMAND MASTER CHIEF for a SEAL TEAM
GEORGE W SKILLING 2010
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I don't know what the last - what media the last caller is referring to, but in all the newspapers I read, the magazines and the TV shows I watch, these extremists are called extremists.
garyth123 commented on the word caller
In Scots this means fresh. Fergusson has a line I think about caller oysters (or whatever oysters is in Scots, I'll check).
January 18, 2009
garyth123 commented on the word caller
A’ ye wha canna stand sae sicker,
Whan twice ye’ve toom’d the big
ars’dbicker,
Mix caller oysters wi your liquor,
And I’m your debtor
If greedy priest or drouthy vicar
Will thole it better.
Auld Reekie’s 18th-century James Dean
sicker?
toom'd
big ars'dbicker?
January 18, 2009
garyth123 commented on the word caller
Caller, fresh, cool. There is no exact English synonym for this word. " Caller herrin," " Caller haddie," and "Caller ow" are familiar cries to Edinburgh people, and to all strangers who
visit that beautiful city.
Sae sweet his voice, sae smooth his tongue,
His breath's like caller air ;
His very foot has music in't
When he comes up the stair.
MICKLE : There's nae Luck
about the House.
Upon a simmer Sunday morn,
When Nature's face is fair,
I walked forth to view the corn
And snuff the caller air.
BURNS: The Holy Fair.
From Mackay's Dictionary of Lowland Scotch.
January 18, 2009