souter

See also: Souter

English

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English soutere, from Old English sūtere, from Latin sūtor (shoemaker, cobbler).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsu.tɚ/
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈsuːtə/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
  • Homophone: suitor

Noun

souter (plural souters)

  1. (Scotland, Northern England) A shoemaker or cobbler.
    • 1527, William Tyndale, The Parable of the Wicked Mammon:
      There is no work better than another to please God : to pour water , to wash dishes , to be a souter (cobbler) , or an apostle
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31:
      He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at.

Anagrams

Middle English

Noun

souter

  1. Alternative form of soutere
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