prowler

English

Etymology

prowl +‎ -er

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -aʊlə(r)

Noun

prowler (plural prowlers)

  1. One who roves about for prey; one who prowls.
    • 1922, Michael Arlen, “1/1/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days‎:
      House Prees and Bloods […] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.

References
  • prowler in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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