different between swelter vs skelter

English

Etymology

From Middle English sweltren, swaltren, frequentative form of Middle English swelten (“to die; faint”), from Old English sweltan (“to die”), from Proto-Germanic *sweltan? (“to die”), from Proto-Indo-European *swel- (“to smolder; burn”), equivalent to swelt +? -er (frequentative suffix). More at swelt.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sw?l.t?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sw?l.t?/
• Rhymes: -?lt?(r)

Verb

swelter (third-person singular simple present swelters, present participle sweltering, simple past and past participle sweltered)

1. (intransitive) To suffer terribly from intense heat.
2. (intransitive) To perspire greatly from heat.
3. (transitive) To cause to faint, to overpower, as with heat.
   • 1796, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Fire, Famine, and Slaughter

     It was so rare a piece of fun
     To see the swelter'd cattle run

Translations

Noun

swelter (plural swelters)

1. Intense heat.

Translations

Anagrams

• Lewters, Welters, welters, wrestle

English

Etymology

Compare helter-skelter.

Noun

skelter (plural skelters)

1. A gravity-based device used to store and rotate round food and drink in a first-in-first-out manner.

Verb

skelter (third-person singular simple present skelters, present participle skeltering, simple past and past participle skeltered)

1. (colloquial, with "away" or "off") To run off helter-skelter; to hurry; to scurry.
   • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago

     It was evident that Europeans seldom came here, for numbers of women skeltered away as I walked through the village […]

Translations

Anagrams

• Kestler, kelters, kestrel