bowser
Meanings
Plural: bowsers
Noun
- A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.
- A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.
- A mobile water tank deployed to distribute fresh water in emergency situations where the normal system of piped distribution has broken down or is insufficient.
- A buffoon or imbecile.
Origin / Etymology
* (liquids): From Bowser (“a surname”), named after Sylvanus Bowser, US inventor of the first fuel pump; also a trade name of SF Bowser inc., the inventor's company.
* (Irish)
Scrabble Score: 11
bowser is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL wordbowser is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
bowser is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 12
bowser is a valid Words With Friends word