1. blower(n = noun.artifact) - a device that produces a current of air;
is a kind of device
has particulars: bellows, blow drier, blow dryer, hair drier, hair dryer, hand blower
Derived forms verb blow14, verb blow13
2. blower(n = noun.artifact) electric fan - a fan run by an electric motor;
is a kind of fan
has parts: electric motor, fan blade, hub
Derived forms verb blow14, verb blow13
3. blower(n = noun.animal) cetacean, cetacean mammal - large aquatic carnivorous mammal with fin-like forelimbs no hind limbs, including: whales; dolphins; porpoises; narwhals;
is a kind of aquatic mammal
has parts: fluke, blowhole
is a member of cetacea, order cetacea, pod
has particulars: whale
1. One who, or that which, blows. [1913 Webster]
2. A device for producing a current of air; as:
3. A blowing out or excessive discharge of gas from a hole or fissure in a mine. [1913 Webster]
4. The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water. [1913 Webster]
5. A small fish of the Atlantic coast (
6. A braggart, or loud talker. Bartlett. [1913 Webster]
blower, n.
1 in senses of BLOW(1) v.
2 a device for creating a current of air.
3 colloq. a telephone.
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.