Associations to the word «Bowser»

Wiktionary

BOWSER, noun. (now chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A fuel metering/delivery pump at a filling station.
BOWSER, noun. A road vehicle (often a trailer) for the transport of liquid fuel, particularly aviation fuel at an airfield.
BOWSER, noun. (British) 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.
BOWSER, noun. (Irish) (slang) (used in the vocative) A buffoon or imbecile.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats