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bowser [bou-zer] ExamplesWord Origin noun Australian and New Zealand.
- a gasoline pump at a filling station.
Origin of bowser 1930–35; said to be after S.F. Bowser and Co., a Sydney manufacturer of gasoline and oil storage systems Examples from the Web for bowser Contemporary Examples of bowser
Darnell Butler, who recently moved back to Washington from Maryland, said he was voting for Bowser.
20 Years After Marion Barry, D.C. Voters Boot a Scandal-Tainted Mayor
Ben Jacobs
April 2, 2014
The differences between Gray and Bowser and even Catania are miniscule.
There’ are Gray Shadows in Tuesday’s DC Primary
Eleanor Clift
March 31, 2014
“Bowser has the momentum but her support is soft,” says Plotkin.
There’ are Gray Shadows in Tuesday’s DC Primary
Eleanor Clift
March 31, 2014
If Bowser wins, the whole rationale for his candidacy, to stop Gray, “goes out the window.”
There’ are Gray Shadows in Tuesday’s DC Primary
Eleanor Clift
March 31, 2014
As Bowser sits in a Dallas jail, police are trying to piece together what made the former teacher allegedly kill.
Erbie Bowser: A ‘Gentle Giant’ Who Snapped
Christine Pelisek
August 9, 2013
Historical Examples of bowser
There was a modesty in Bowser’s tone that gave me a better opinion of him.
F. Hopkinson Smith
Once I met Bowser on his way to his work, a roll of theatre-bills under his arm.
F. Hopkinson Smith
She had sat all day at the window watching for his return, so Bowser told me.
F. Hopkinson Smith
Suppose this did happen to be Sim Clark or Bowser, what had he been doing in the marsh?
Frank V. Webster
Now that is something that Bowser the Hound never can stand.
Thornton W. Burgess
British Dictionary definitions for bowser bowser noun
- a tanker containing fuel for aircraft, military vehicles, etc
- Australian and NZ obsolete a petrol pump
Word Origin for bowser originally a US proprietary name, from S. F. Bowser, US inventor, who made the first one in 1885 Word Origin and History for bowser n.
a dog’s name, 1806, perhaps imitative of baying.