pitcher
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pitcher”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
Noun
pitcher (plural pitchers)
- One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.
- (baseball, softball), the player who delivers the ball to the batter.
- (chiefly US, colloquial) The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
- (obsolete) A sort of crowbar for digging.
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Etymology 2
From Middle English picher, from Old French pichier, pechier (“small jug”), bichier (compare modern French pichet), from Late Latin or Medieval Latin pīcārium, alteration of bīcārium, itself possibly from bacarium, bacar or from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos). Doublet of beaker.
Noun
pitcher (plural pitchers)
- A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.
- (botany) A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant.
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- Pitcher (container) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 3
Noun
pitcher (plural pitchers)
- Pronunciation spelling of picture, representing dialectal English.
- 1934, William Byron Mowery, Challenge of the North:
- She's purtier'n uh pitcher, son, but what in th' name o' thunderin' snakes c'n you do with 'er in this here country?
- 2015, Stephen Gresham, Rockabye Baby:
- Nineteen sixty-nine, shore as hell, Clay Lawrence —that magazine had uh pitcher of ya—was uh All-American defensive back at the University of Missouri.
- 1934, William Byron Mowery, Challenge of the North:
Anagrams
Gallo
Etymology
From Old French piquer (“to pierce with the tip of a sword”), from Vulgar Latin pīccare (“to sting, strike”), from Frankish *pikkōn.
Verb
pitcher
- to prick
Spanish
Etymology
From English.
Noun
pitcher m (plural pitchers)
- Alternative spelling of pícher
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