caller

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[ kaw-ler ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that calls.

  2. a person who makes a short visit.

  1. Dance. a person who directs the movements of dancers, as at a hoedown or square dance, by calling out the successive figures as the music plays.

Origin of caller

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First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English. See call, -er1

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2. See visitor.

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caller2
[ kal-er, kah-ler ]

adjectiveScot. and North England.
  1. (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.

Origin of caller

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1325–75; Middle English, north. variant of calver fresh, alive (said of fish) < ?

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British Dictionary definitions for caller (1 of 2)

caller1

/ (ˈkɔːlə) /


noun
  1. a person or thing that calls, esp a person who makes a brief visit

  2. Australian a racing commentator

British Dictionary definitions for caller (2 of 2)

caller2

/ (ˈkælə); (Scottish ˈkælər, ˈkɒlər) /


adjectiveScot
  1. (of food, esp fish) fresh

  2. cool: a caller breeze

Origin of caller

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C14: perhaps a Scottish variant of calver to prepare fresh salmon or trout in a certain way; perhaps from Old English calwer curds, from a fancied resemblance with the flaked flesh of the fish

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