blotter
English
Etymology
blot + -er
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)
Noun
blotter (plural blotters)
- A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.
- Synonym: desk pad
- (law enforcement) A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station.
- Synonym: police blotter
- A register of the related events made in the form of the list of times and brief descriptions.
- All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.
- He maintains the political blotter blog.
- 2003, Karen Hood-Caddy, The Wisdom of Water
- "The blotter was so full of his scribbling, it was getting harder and harder to find places to write in."
- (slang) A portion of blotter acid.
- 2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive
- Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.
- 2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive
Derived terms
- blotter acid
- blottery
- police blotter
- trade blotter
Translations
piece of blotting paper — see blotting paper
police station register
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References
- blotter at OneLook Dictionary Search
- blotter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
- Jonathon Green (2023), “blotter n.1”, in Green's Dictionary of Slang
blotter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Roblett, Tolbert, bottler
Cebuano
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English blotter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blaˈteɾ/, [bl̪ʌˈt̪iɾ̪]
Noun
blotter
- blotting paper
- (law enforcement) police blotter
Usage notes
According to the prescribed standard Cebuano orthography created by Bisaya magazine, since adapted by Department of Education Region VII and the Komisyon Probinsyal sa Sinugbuanong Dila (Provincial Commission on the Cebuano Language), unadapted borrowings (direktang paghulam) in Cebuano should be written in italics. In practice, this prescription is not always followed.
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈb̥lʌd̥ə]
Etymology 1
From blotte (“to expose”) + er.
Noun
blotter c (singular definite blotteren, plural indefinite blottere)
- flasher, exhibitionist (a person exposing his or her genitalia in public)
Declension
Declension of blotter
common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | blotter | blotteren | blottere | blotterne |
genitive | blotters | blotterens | blotteres | blotternes |
Further reading
- “blotter” in Den Danske Ordbog
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
blotter
- present of blotte
Tagalog
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from English blotter.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈblateɾ/, [ˈbla.teɾ]
Noun
blotter
- Alternative spelling of blater
Further reading
- “blotter”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila: Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2018