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blower

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blow=er

CIDE DICTIONARY

blowern. 
  •  One who, or that which, blows.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine.  [1913 Webster]
  •  The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A small fish of the Atlantic coast (Tetrodon turgidus); the puffer.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A braggart, or loud talker.  Bartlett.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

blower, n.
1 in senses of BLOW(1) v.
2 a device for creating a current of air.
3 colloq. a telephone.

THESAURUS

blower

Captain Bobadil, Gascon, Texan, aerator, air conditioner, air cooler, air filter, air passage, bellows, big mouth, blowgun, blowhard, blowpipe, blowtube, blusterer, boaster, brag, braggadocio, braggart, cooling system, electric fan, exhaust fan, fan, fanfaron, flabellum, gasbag, gasconader, hector, hot-air artist, miles gloriosus, punkah, rodomontade, thermantidote, ventilator, windbag, windcatcher, windjammer, windsail, windscoop, windy

ROGET THESAURUS

blower

Boasting

N boasting, boast, vaunt, crake, pretense, pretensions, puff, puffery, flourish, fanfaronade, gasconade, blague, bluff, gas, highfalutin, highfaluting, hot air, spread-eagleism, brag, braggardism, bravado, bunkum, buncombe, jactitation, jactancy, bounce, venditation, vaporing, rodomontade, bombast, fine talking, tall talk, magniloquence, teratology, heroics, Chauvinism, exaggeration, vanity, vox et praeterea nihil, much cry and little wool, brutum fulmen, exultation, gloriation, glorification, flourish of trumpets, triumph, boaster, braggart, braggadocio, Gascon, fanfaron, pretender, soi-disant, blower, bluffer, Foxy Quiller, blusterer, charlatan, jack-pudding, trumpeter, puppy, boasting, magniloquent, flaming, Thrasonic, stilted, gasconading, braggart, boastful, pretentious, soi-disant, vainglorious, highfalutin, highfaluting, spread- eagle, elate, elated, jubilant, triumphant, exultant, in high feather, flushed, flushed with victory, cock-a-hoop, on stilts, vaunted, vauntingly, let the galled jade wince, facta non verba.


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