hatter

• IPA^(key): /ˈhætə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)

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

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.

• haberdasher

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

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

• Threat, rateth, that're, threat

hatter

1. alternative form of hattere

hatter

1. alternative form of hater

hatter m

1. indefinite plural of hatt

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

hatter m

1. hat

• IPA^(key): /ˈhatər/

hatter (plural hatters)

1. (Southern Scots) a hassle

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

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