hatter

See also: Hatter and háttér

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhætə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ætə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English hatter; equivalent to hat +‎ -er.

Noun

hatter (plural hatters)

a hatter

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

   Synonyms: hatmaker, milliner

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.

Derived terms

• mad as a hatter
• mad hatter
• mad hatter disease
• mad hatter syndrome
• tinfoil 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 (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)
• 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)

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.
   • 1690, [John] Dryden, Don Sebastian, King of Portugal: […], London: […] Jo. Hindmarsh, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page number):

     They may Hatter an indifferent Beauty; but the Excellencies of Nature can have no Right done to them

Anagrams

• Threat, rateth, that're, threat

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

hatter

1. Alternative form of hattere

Etymology 2

Noun

hatter

1. Alternative form of hater

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hatter m

1. indefinite plural of hatt

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hǫttr, from Proto-Germanic *hattuz.

Noun

hatter m

1. hat

Declension

Declension of hatter (u-stem)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hatter	hattrin	hatti(r), -e(r)	hattini(r), -ene(r)
accusative	hatt	hattin	hatti, -e	hattina, -ena
dative	hatti, -e	hattinum, -enom	hattum, -om	hattumin, -omen
genitive	hatta(r)	hattsins	hatta	hattanna

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