FELLER (feller)

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Irregular inflected form: feller   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does feller mean? 

• FELLER (noun)
  The noun FELLER has 2 senses:

1. a person who fells trees

2. a boy or man

  Familiarity information: FELLER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FELLER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who fells trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

faller; feller; logger; lumberjack; lumberman

Hypernyms ("feller" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feller"):

scorer (a logger who marks trees to be felled)

Instance hyponyms:

Bunyan; Paul Bunyan (a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada)

Derivation:

fell (cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A boy or man

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

blighter; bloke; chap; cuss; fella; feller; fellow; gent; lad

Context example:

he's a good bloke

Hypernyms ("feller" is a kind of...):

male; male person (a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "feller"):

dog (informal term for a man)

 Context examples 

Curse me, but he was the strongest chap I ever struck, an' him a old feller, with a white moustache, one that thin you would think he couldn't throw a shadder.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There was a feller in a rabbit-skin cap some time ago. ’E was loiterin’ about until I asked ’im what ’is business was, for I didn’t care about the looks of ’im, or the way that ’e was peepin’ in at the windows.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"She's my lady friend," Jim explained, "and she's a peach. I'd introduce you to her, only you'd win her. I don't see what the girls see in you, honest I don't; but the way you win them away from the fellers is sickenin'."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"A lot of the fellers put on the gloves. There was a peach from West Oakland. They called 'm 'The Rat.' Slick as silk. No one could touch 'm. We was all wishin' you was there. Where was you anyway?"

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)