different between blotter vs blatter

English

Etymology

blot +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t?(r)

Noun

blotter (plural blotters)

1. A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.

   Synonym: desk pad

2. (law enforcement) A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station: a police blotter.
3. 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."

4. (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.

Derived terms

• blotter acid
• blottery
• police blotter
• trade blotter

Translations

References

• blotter at OneLook Dictionary Search
• blotter in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• blotter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Roblett, Tolbert, bottler

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?b?l?d??]

Etymology 1

From blotte (“to expose”) +? er.

Noun

blotter c (singular definite blotteren, plural indefinite blottere)

1. flasher, exhibitionist (a person exposing his or her genitalia in public)

Declension

Further reading

• “blotter” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

blotter

1. present of blotte

English

Etymology 1

Latin blater?re

Noun

blatter (countable and uncountable, plural blatters)

1. Blather; foolish talk.
2. A sound of rapid motion.

Verb

blatter (third-person singular simple present blatters, present participle blattering, simple past and past participle blattered)

1. (intransitive) To blather.
2. (intransitive) To hurry or rush noisily.

Etymology 2

Noun

blatter (uncountable)

1. A hard battering of rain.
   • 1901, Good Words (volume 42, page 7)

     Between the roar of the thunder and the blatter of the rain there were intervals of an astounding still, of an ominous suspense […]

Anagrams

• Barlett, Bartelt, Brattel, Talbert, battler, brattle