beller

beller (plural bellers)

1. (US, dialectal) Alternative form of bellow
   • 1934 August, Robert E. Howard, “Sluggers of the Beach”, in Jack Dempsey’s Fight Magazine:

     With a beller of wrath, I jerked my arm away from him and hung a clout on his proboscis that knocked him headfirst through the ropes.

beller (third-person singular simple present bellers, present participle bellering, simple past and past participle bellered)

1. (US, dialectal) Alternative form of bellow
   • 1929, William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury:

     "Don't you start bellering now..."

   • 1953, James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain, New York, N.Y.: Knopf, →OCLC, part 2 (The Prayers of the Saints):

     ‘Girl, stop that bellering. What you talking about?’

From bellen +‎ -er.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛ.lər/

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• Hyphenation: bel‧ler
• Rhymes: -ɛlər

beller m or f (plural bellers, diminutive bellertje n)

1. (telephony) caller, someone who calls in

   En we hebben een beller! ― And we've got a caller!

beller

1. first-person singular present active subjunctive of bellor

beller

1. nominative plural of bel

beller

1. third-person singular indicative aorist of bellemek