screamer

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A bouncing fellow or girl. This, like the word roarer, is one of the many terms transferred from animals to men by the hunters of the West.


If he's a specimen of the Choctaws that live in these parts, they are screamers.--Thorpe's Backwoods.

Mary is a screamer of a girl; I'd rather have her than all the rest.--Mrs. Clavers's Western Clearings.

What's the matter with that woman? said the recorder. Policeman.--That's the way she was carryin' on last night when I arrested her--she's a screamer, your honor, I tell you --Pickings from the Picayune.

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