hatter

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See also: Hatter and háttér

English

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhætə(ɹ)/
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  • Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English hatter; equivalent to hat +‎ -er.

Noun

hatter (plural hatters)

a hatter
  1. A person who makes, sells, or repairs hats.
    Synonyms: hatmaker, milliner
  2. (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.
  3. A miner who works by himself.
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Etymology 2

From an English dialect word, meaning "to entangle"; compare Low German verhaddern, verheddern, verhiddern.

Verb

hatter (third-person singular simple present hatters, present participle hattering, simple past and past participle hattered)

  1. 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

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hatter

  1. Alternative form of hattere

Etymology 2

Noun

hatter

  1. Alternative form of hater

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hatter m

  1. indefinite plural of hatt

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hǫttr, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.

Noun

hatter m

  1. hat

Declension

Declension of hatter (u-stem)
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hatter hattrin hatti(r), -e(r) hattini(r), -ene(r)
accusative hatt hattin hatti, -e hattina, -ena
dative hatti, -e hattinum, -enom hattum, -om hattumin, -omen
genitive hatta(r) hattsins hatta hattanna

Scots

Pronunciation

Noun

hatter (plural hatters)

  1. (South Scots) a hassle

Verb

hatter (third-person singular simple present hatters, present participle hatterin, simple past hattered, past participle hattered)

  1. (South Scots) to bother; to get someone worked up
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