different between pinter vs pitter

English

Etymology

pint +? -er

Noun

pinter (plural pinters)

1. (in combinations, Britain, slang) The drinking of a certain number of pints of beer
2. (in combinations, Britain, slang) A container that holds a certain number of pints.
   • 2006, Martyn J. Pass, Dani Pass, Waiting for Red (page 262)

     “Anyway, I'd best get a shuffle on. Got to pick some milk up, you see.” “I've just been too.” Sure enough he showed the hedgehog a four-pinter.

3. (in combinations, Britain, slang) Something that takes a certain number of pints of beer to appreciate.

   She's so ugly, an eight-pinter, I'd say.

Anagrams

• Petrin, Pitner, e-print, nipter, pre-tin, pretin, pterin, reptin, terpin

French

Etymology

pinte +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.te/

Verb

pinter

1. (informal) To get drunk

Conjugation

Further reading

• “pinter” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

pit +? -er

Noun

pitter (plural pitters)

1. A device that removes pits from fruit such as olives or cherries.

Derived terms

• cherry pitter
• olive pitter

Translations

Etymology 2

See pitter-patter.

Verb

pitter (third-person singular simple present pitters, present participle pittering, simple past and past participle pittered)

1. To make a pattering sound.

Translations

Maltese

Etymology

Integrated loan verb from Sicilian pittari, derived from Latin pictus, past participle of pingere, from which latter also the doublet Maltese pin?a (via Sicilian pingiri).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?t.t?r/

Verb

pitter (imperfect jpitter, past participle mpitter)

1. to paint, draw, depict

   Synonym: pin?a

Related terms

• pittoresk
• pittur
• pittura
• tpin?ija