picter

picter (plural picters)

1. (archaic) Pronunciation spelling of picture.
   • 1843, The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, volume XXII, New-York: John Allen, page 123:

     ‘A, B, C,—you’ve tored my jacket—D, E, F,—you’ve spilt my ’lasses—G, H, I, J, K—you’re a ’tarnal rascal—L, M, N, O, P, Q,—I’ll larn you better manners, you scamp, you!—R, S, T, U, V,—I’ll spile your picter, you old wall-eye!—W, X, Y, Z, ampersand—now I’ll pound your insides out o’ you, you darned nigger!’

   • 1844, Charles Dickens, The Chimes, Chapter III:

     It looks well in a picter, I've heerd say; but there an't weather in picters, and maybe 'tis fitter for that, than for a place to live in.

• Petric, pierc't, tricep