fitter

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪtə(r)

Etymology

fit + -er

Adjective

fitter

  1. comparative form of fit: more fit
    An exercise bike won't make you fitter if you never find time to use it.
    My bird's loads fitter than yours.
    • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
      All stood together on the deck, / For a charnel-dungeon fitter: / All fixed on me their stony eyes, / That in the Moon did glitter.

Noun

fitter (plural fitters)

  1. A person who fits or assembles something.
    a fitter of clothing, or of machinery
  2. (informal) An epileptic.
  3. (Britain, dated) A coal broker who conducts the sales between the owner of a coal pit and the shipper.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Simmonds to this entry?)

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German

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Adjective

fitter

  1. comparative degree of fit

Norwegian

Noun

fitter

  1. Indefinite plural of fitte
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