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/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -uːtə(ɹ)
- Homophone: suitor
Noun
souter (plural souters)
- (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.
Middle English
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