caller

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  1. noun One that calls, especially a party placing a telephone call.
  2. noun A person paying a short social visit.
  3. noun A person who calls out numbers or directions, as at a bingo game or a square dance.
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  • He began to wonder whether the caller was a child. —  Maigret and the Dead Girl - Georges Simenon - 73
  • Within two days my caller was there, inquiring for William, and was told by a number that he had been at work in town some time, but left a couple of days before, but knew not where he went. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • Evidently he felt the caller was a dirty little slut and therefore needed to apply varieties of hot salsa to her body. —  Christopher Moore - You Suck
  • What if his caller was the mysterious woman for whom he had mistaken her? —  ONE NIGHT OF SCANDAL
  • Maybe most of us have cell phones now, but what if the caller was a busboy working the overnight shift at the restaurant that night for minimum wage? —  Beach Road
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  1. Middle English calour, alteration of calver.

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  1. from call + -er.
  2. Prob. due to Icelandic kaldr = Swedish kall, cold: see cold. Cf. calver.
 

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/ˈkælər/
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