different between punter vs puter

English

Etymology

punt +? -er

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?n.t?(?)/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?n.t?/, [p???????]
• Rhymes: -?nt?(?)

Noun

punter (plural punters)

1. One who bets (punts) against the bank.
2. One who oars or poles a punt (pontoon).
3. One who punts a football.
4. (Australia, Britain, New Zealand, slang) One who gambles. See speculator.
5. (Britain, Australia, slang) A customer of a commercial establishment, frequently of a pub or (alternatively) of a prostitute.
6. (climbing) A beginner or unskilled climber.
7. The person who keeps score in basset or ombre.
8. (Scotland) A person who trades with a gang but is not a gang member.
   • 2013, James Patrick, A Glasgow Gang Observed

     He had stolen 'trannies' (transistor radios) and hub caps from cars outside the main hotels in Glasgow, turning the collection into money through dealing with a 'punter' at Charing Cross.

9. (Internet slang) A program used to forcibly disconnect another user from a chat room.
   • 2001, Roger A. Grimes, Malicious Mobile Code: Virus Protection for Windows (page 236)

     Punters generate hundreds of information inquiries to a legitimate user's client, such as invitations to chat. […] The user is punted from the channel, and must rejoin to gain access.

Synonyms

• (prostitute's client): see Thesaurus:prostitute's client

Translations

Anagrams

• Turpen, turnep

English

Noun

puter (plural puters)

1. Alternative form of 'puter

Anagrams

• Putre, erupt, reput, upter

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *puH-; compare Sanskrit ????? (p??yati, “stinks, rots”), Ancient Greek ???? (pûon, “discharge from a sore”), ???? (púth?, “to rot”), Gothic ???????????????? (fuls, “foul”), Old English f?l (“foul”) (whence English foul), from the same root.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?pu.ter/, [?p?t??r]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?pu.ter/, [?pu?t??r]

Adjective

puter (feminine putris, neuter putre); third-declension three-termination adjective

1. rotten, decaying
2. crumbling, friable

Declension

Third-declension three-termination adjective.

Synonyms

• (rotten): p?tidus, putridus

Derived terms

• putre?
• putrefaci?

Descendants

• Galician: podre
• Italian: putre
• Kabuverdianu: podri
• Papiamentu: putrí
• Portuguese: podre
• Spanish: podre
• ? Welsh: pwdr

References

• puter in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• puter in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

puter m or f

1. indefinite plural of pute

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

puter f

1. indefinite plural of pute

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Butter (pronounced with initial unaspirated [p] in an Austro-Bavarian accent), from Middle High German buter, from Old High German butira, from Proto-West Germanic *buter?, from Latin b?t?rum, from Ancient Greek ???????? (boút?ron).

Noun

p?ter m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. butter

Declension