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The person who interrupts your silence and expects gratitude for it.
means Someone who contacts you by phone, or anyone who comes to visit — the noun form of the act of calling.
from From Old Norse 'kalla' (to shout, summon), which entered English as 'callen' and settled into 'call' by the Middle English period. The '-er' suffix, meaning 'one who does the action,' was bolted on to turn the verb into a person — so a caller is literally just 'one who calls,' whether that's hollering across a field centuries ago or lighting up your phone screen today.
- caller id
- invented so you could ignore people on purpose
- radio callers
- wait on hold to argue with strangers for free
- first caller
- often wins a prize for dialing fastest, not smartest
- unknown caller
- modern horror genre, two words long