meller
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of meller
By shortening and alteration
Example Sentences
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As presented in Stockholm's Royal Opera House last week, this kind of interstellar meller was meant not for science-fiction escapists but for devotees of avant-garde music.
From Time Magazine Archive
When he made a hit in a cheap meller, he played nothing else for a decade.
From Time Magazine Archive
It ain't for me to tell now uv the meller sweetness uv their courtin' time; I could n't do it if I tried.
From Second Book of Tales by Field, Eugene
“If I’m not much mistaken—” he started to say, but Drusilla broke in without any ceremony:— “’T ain’t nothin’ ’t all, but one er dem ar meller bugs what swims roun’ in de spring.”
From Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country by Herford, Oliver
He knows how to obtain bumblebees' honey, paying for this information with an ear like a garnet potato, one of the sort that "biles up meller;" and he knows how to find mushrooms.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878 by Various
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