hatter

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• Rhymes: -ætə(r)

From hat +‎ -er.

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.

• hatmaker
• milliner

• mad as a hatter

• haberdasher

From an English dialect word, meaning "to entangle"; compare Low German verhaddern, verheddern, verhiddern.

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

1. To tire or worry.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

• Threat, rateth, that're, threat

From hat +‎ -er.

hatter

1. Alternative form of hattere

From Old English hæteru.

hatter

1. Alternative form of hater

hatter m

1. indefinite plural of hatt

• IPA^(key): /ˈhatər/

hatter (plural hatters)

1. (South Scots) a hassle

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

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