Hutmacher

German

Etymology

Hut +‎ Macher

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhuːtˌmaχɐ/

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Noun

Hutmacher m (genitive Hutmachers, plural Hutmacher, feminine Hutmacherin)

1. hatmaker; hatter, capper, milliner (male or of unspecified sex)
2. the Hatter (often referred to as the Mad Hatter, this term was never used by Carroll), a fictional character in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass

Derived terms

• Hutmacherhandwerk
• Hutmachersyndrom (“erethism, erethism mercurialis: mad hatter disease, mad hatter syndrome”)
• verrückter Hutmacher (der verrückte Hutmacher)