blower

From Middle English blower, from Old English blāwere; equivalent to blow +‎ -er.

• Rhymes: -əʊə(r)

blower (plural blowers)

1. A person who blows.
2. Any device that blows.
3. (slang, dated, chiefly Britain, usually preceded by the) Telephone.

   Get on the blower and call headquarters right away!

4. A ducted fan, usually part of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning system.
5. (dated) A braggart, or loud talker.
6. The whale; so called by seamen, from its habit of spouting up a column of water.
7. A small fish of the Atlantic coast, Sphoeroides maculatus; the puffer.

• Bowler, Wrobel, bowler, worble

• blawer, blauere, blowere

From Old English blāwere.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblɔu̯ər(ə)/
• (Northern ME) IPA^(key): /ˈblɑu̯ər(ə)/

blower (plural blowers)

1. A player of a wind instrument.
2. (rare) One who blows a bellows.
3. (rare) A tool or instrument used by blowing.
4. (rare) A person who converses in a vain or crude way.

• English: blower
• Scots: blawer

• “blouere (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-14.