hatter

hatter

See also: Hatter and háttér

English

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)

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.

Derived terms

• mad as a hatter

Translations

person who makes, sells, or repairs hats

Armenian: գլխարկագործ (hy) (glxarkagorc), ճոն (hy) (čon) (dialectal) Bulgarian: шапкар m (šapkar) Chinese: Mandarin: 帽匠 (zh) (màojiàng) Czech: kloboučník (cs) m Dutch: hoedenmaker (nl) Finnish: hatuntekijä French: chapelier (fr) Georgian: ჭონი (č̣oni) German: Hutmacher (de) m, Hutmacherin (de) f Hungarian: kalapos (hu) Icelandic: hattari m, hattamakari m Irish: haitéir m, hatadóir m Italian: cappellaio (it) m, modista (it) Japanese: 帽子屋 (ja) (ぼうしや, bōshiya) Polish: kapelusznik (pl) m Portuguese: chapeleiro (pt) m Romanian: pălărier (ro) m Russian: шля́пный ма́стер m (šljápnyj máster), торго́вец шля́пами m (torgóvec šljápami), шляпник (ru) m (šljapnik) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: клобучар m, klobučar (sh) m Roman: klobučar (sh) m Slovak: klobúčnik m, klobúčnička f Spanish: sombrerero (es) m Turkish: şapkacı (tr)

See also

• haberdasher

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 1154883115, (please specify the page number):

     They may Hatter an indifferent Beauty; but the Excellencies of Nature can have no Right done to them

Anagrams

• Threat, rateth, that're, threat

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Middle English

Noun

hatter

1. Alternative form of hattere

Noun

hatter

1. Alternative form of hater

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hatter m

1. indefinite plural of hatt

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhatər/

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