Screamer

Noun

 * 1) One who screams; one who shouts; one who sings harshly.
 * 2) * c.1840-41, Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop,
 * 'Don't be frightened, mistress,' said Quilp, after a pause. 'Your son knows me; I don't eat babies; I don't like 'em. It will be as well to stop that young screamer though, in case I should be tempted to do him a mischief. Holloa, sir! Will you be quiet?'
 * 1) * 1886, Henry James, The Bostonians,
 * He stood almost appalled for a moment, as he said to himself that she would take her up and the girl would be ruined, would force her note and become a screamer.
 * 1) Any bird in the taxonomic family Anhimidae, endemic to South America, being large, bulky birds with a small downy head, long legs and large feet.
 * 2)  🇺🇸 A healthy, vigorous animal.
 * 3) * 1917, David Crockett, The Bear Hunt, in Maurice Garland Fulton (editor), Southern Life in Southern Literature,
 * I had seen the track of the bear they were after, and I knowed he was a screamer.
 * 1) A healthy, vigorous person.
 * 2) Something exceptionally good.
 * 3) * 1875, Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins,
 * ... I do not judge hastily, Alec, for I have read a dozen, at least, of these stories, and, with much that is attractive to boys, I find a great deal to condemn in them, and other parents say the same when I ask them."
 * "Now, Mum, that's too bad! I like 'em tip-top. This one is a regular screamer," cried Will.
 * 1)  A difficult catch.
 * 2) * 2010 Adam Gilchrist, True Colours,
 * But then he came around the wicket again, I slashed at one, and Strauss, at full stretch diving to his left at second slip, took an absolute screamer. It was the catch of the summer, and it happened to me.
 * 1)  A very hard hit.
 * 2) * 2006, R. G. Utley, Tim Peeler, Aaron Peeler, Outlaw Ballplayers: interviews and profiles from the Independent Carolina Baseball League,
 * His screamer into the right field bleachers in the sixth with Scarborough and Viau on base put Hickory out in front 9 to 8 and the lead held for the rest of the game.
 * 1)  A particularly high mark (clean catch of a kicked ball).
 * 2) * 2008, John Devaney, Full Points Footy's WA Football Companion,
 * Virtually every other facet of the game is shared by other sports, but the sight of a player taking a fingertip ‘screamer’ whilst perched on the shoulders of an opponent is unique to footy, and players who perfect this ability are among the code’s most celebrated and well remembered.
 * 1)  a powerful shot.
 * 2)  A very large wave.
 * 3) * 2010, Peter Klein, Silk Chaser,
 * That set the pattern for us both. Catch a screamer, work it hard for as long as you could, then drop back over the shoulder and paddle back out to the line-up.
 * 1)  A video that unexpectedly frightens the viewer by cutting to a loud scream and disturbing image.
 * 2) * 2008, Nadia Giosia, Bitchin' Kitchen Cookbook
 * The Web is also big business; who needs a real job when you can just send Grandma a screamer and&mdash;POOF!&mdash;there's your inheritance.
 * 1)   An effeminate gay man.
 * 2) * 1989, Joseph P. Goodwin, More Man Than You’ll Ever Be: Gay Folklore and Acculturation in Middle America, Indiana University Press, ISBN 978-0-253-20497-4, page 43:
 * Well, this friend was a real effeminate person—[he] was just a screamer.  Well even my brother was smart enough to realize they were gay.
 * 1) * 1992, in The Advocate, issues 607–610, page 315:
 * So when George Michael sings in his latest hit, “Girl, you're just too funky for me,” is he really singing about a woman? Or is he just being a total screamer and gender-fucking his male love object?
 * So when George Michael sings in his latest hit, “Girl, you're just too funky for me,” is he really singing about a woman? Or is he just being a total screamer and gender-fucking his male love object?

Derived terms

 * Black-necked Screamer
 * Crested Screamer
 * Horned Screamer
 * Northern Screamer
 * Southern Screamer
 * two pot screamer

Thesaurus
banner, banner head, bloomer, blooper, bobble, bonehead play, boner, boo-boo, boob stunt, boot, caption, drop head, dropline, dumb trick, epigraph, fool mistake, foozle, foul-up, goof, hanger, head, heading, headline, howler, jump head, legend, louse-up, motto, muck-up, overline, pratfall, rubric, running head, running title, scarehead, screw-up, spread, spreadhead, streamer, subhead, subheading, subtitle, superscription, title, title page

Translations

 * Finnish:


 * Icelandic: öskrari


 * Dutch: hoenderkoet
 * Finnish:


 * German: Wehrvogel
 * Spanish: aruco, chavarrí , chicagüire

Anagrams

 * creamers