bellowser

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

bellows +‎ -er, from bellows (“the lungs”); (life sentence): because people continue to breathe until they die.

Noun[edit]

bellowser (plural bellowsers)

  1. (slang, obsolete) A sentence of transportation for life.
  2. (slang, obsolete) A blow in the pit of the stomach, taking one's breath away.

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References[edit]

  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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