FromMiddle Englishhatter; equivalent tohat +-er.
hatter (pluralhatters)
a hatter- A person who makes, sells, or repairshats.
- Synonyms:hatmaker,milliner
- (Australia, slang) A person who lives alone in thebush.
1892, Henry Lawson,Up The Country:Lonely hut where drought’s eternal, suffocating atmosphere
Where the God-forgottenhatter dreams of city life and beer.
- Aminer who works by himself.
person who makes, sells, or repairs hats
- Armenian:գլխարկագործ (hy)(glxarkagorc),ճոն (hy)(čon)(dialectal)
- Bulgarian:шапкар (bg) m(šapkar)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:帽匠 (zh)(màojiàng)
- Czech:kloboučník (cs) m
- Dutch:hoedenmaker (nl)
- Finnish:hatuntekijä
- French:chapelier (fr)
- Georgian:ჭონი (ka)(č̣oni)
- German:Hutmacher (de) m,Hutmacherin (de) f
- Hungarian:kalapos (hu)
- Icelandic:hattari m,hattamakari m
- Irish:haitéir m,hatadóir m
- Italian:cappellaio (it) m,modista (it)
- Japanese:帽子屋 (ja)(ぼうしや, bōshiya)
- Macedonian:шапкар m(šapkar)
- Nivkh:ӿаӄотнивх(haqotņivx)
- Ottoman Turkish:شاپقهجی(şapkacı)
- 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
- Swedish:hattmakare c
- Turkish:şapkacı (tr)
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From an English dialect word, meaning "to entangle"; compareLow Germanverhaddern,verheddern,verhiddern.
hatter (third-person singular simple presenthatters,present participlehattering,simple past and past participlehattered)
- Totire orworry.
1690,[John] Dryden,Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […],→OCLC,(please specify the page number):They mayHatter an indifferent Beauty; but the Excellencies of Nature can have no Right done to them
hatter
- Alternative form ofhattere
hatter
- Alternative form ofhater
hatter m
- indefiniteplural ofhatt
FromOld Norsehǫttr, fromProto-Germanic*hattuz.
hatter m
- hat
hatter (pluralhatters)
- (Southern Scots) ahassle
hatter (third-person singular simple presenthatters,present participlehatterin,simple pasthattered,past participlehattered)
- (Southern Scots) tobother; to get someone worked up
