hatter
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈhætə(ɹ)/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English hatter; equivalent to hat + -er.
Noun
[edit]hatter (plural hatters)
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- A person who makes, sells, or repairs hats.
- (Australia, slang) A person who lives alone in the bush.
- 1892, Henry Lawson, Up The Country:
- Lonely hut where drought’s eternal, suffocating atmosphere
Where the God-forgotten hatter dreams of city life and beer.
- A miner who works by himself.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]person who makes, sells, or repairs hats
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See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From an English dialect word, meaning "to entangle"; compare Low German verhaddern, verheddern, verhiddern.
Verb
[edit]hatter (third-person singular simple present hatters, present participle hattering, simple past and past participle hattered)
- To tire or worry.
- 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):
- They may Hatter an indifferent Beauty; but the Excellencies of Nature can have no Right done to them
Anagrams
[edit]Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]hatter
- Alternative form of hattere
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]hatter
- Alternative form of hater
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]hatter m
- indefinite plural of hatt
Old Swedish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse hǫttr, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.
Noun
[edit]hatter m
Declension
[edit]Declension of hatter (u-stem)
Scots
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]hatter (plural hatters)
- (Southern Scots) a hassle
Verb
[edit]hatter (third-person singular simple present hatters, present participle hatterin, simple past hattered, past participle hattered)
- (Southern Scots) to bother; to get someone worked up
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