different between hatter vs hafter

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hæt?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æt?(?)

Etymology 1

From 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

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.

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

Anagrams

• Threat, rateth, that're, threat

Middle English

Etymology 1

From hat +? -er.

Noun

hatter

1. Alternative form of hattere

Etymology 2

From Old English hæteru.

Noun

hatter

1. Alternative form of hater

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hatter m

1. indefinite plural of hatt

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hat?r/

Noun

hatter (plural hatters)

1. (South Scots) a hassle

Verb

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

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

English

Etymology

German haften (“to cling or stick to”), and English haffle.

Noun

hafter (plural hafters)

1. (obsolete) A caviler; a wrangler.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Baret to this entry?)

Preposition

hafter

1. Pronunciation spelling of after.

Contraction

hafter

1. (informal) Contraction of have to.

Anagrams

• Father, afther, fareth, father, trefah