hatter

See also: Hatter and háttér

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ætə(r)

Etymology 1

From hat +‎ -er.

Noun

hatter (plural hatters)

1. A person who makes, sells, or repairs hats.
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.

Synonyms

• hatmaker
• milliner

Derived terms

• mad as a hatter

Translations

person who makes, sells, or repairs hats

• Armenian: գլխարկագործ (hy) (glxarkagorc), ճոն (hy) (čon) (dialectal)
• Bulgarian: шапкар m (šapkar)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 帽匠 (zh) (màojiàng)

• Czech: kloboučník (cs) m
• Dutch: hoedenmaker
• Finnish: hatuntekijä
• French: chapelier (fr)
• Georgian: ჭონი (č̣oni)
• German: Hutmacher (de) m, Hutmacherin (de) f
• Hungarian: kalapos (hu)
• Icelandic: hattari m, hattamakari m
• Irish: haitéir m, hatadóir m
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• Italian: cappellaio (it) m, modista (it)
• Japanese: 帽子屋 (ja) (ぼうしや, bōshiya)
• Polish: kapelusznik (pl) m
• Portuguese: chapeleiro (pt) m
• Romanian: pălărier (ro) m
• Russian: шля́пный ма́стер m (šljápnyj máster), торго́вец шля́пами m (torgóvec šljápami), шляпник (ru) m (šljapnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: клобучар m, klobučar (sh) m

  Roman: klobučar (sh) m

• Slovak: klobúčnik m, klobúčnička f
• Spanish: sombrerero (es) m
• Turkish: şapkacı (tr)

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.

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Anagrams

• Threat, rateth, that're, threat

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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

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hatter m

1. indefinite plural of hatt

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhatər/

Noun

hatter (plural hatters)

1. (Southern Scots) a hassle

Verb

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

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