Balter vs Walter - What's the difference?
balter | walter |
To tumble; dance clumsily.
To become tangled or matted.
To tread down in a clumsy manner.
To tangle; clot; mat (as in the hair).
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* ~1590 , Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene I
* 1991 , Talking It Over , ISBN 0-224-03157-0 page 13:
As verbs the difference between balter and walter
is that balter is to tumble; dance clumsily while walter is to roll or wallow; to welter.As a proper noun Walter is
a given name derived from Germanic.balter
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(en verb)Anagrams
* * *walter
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Whitmore . And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore. / How now! why start'st thou? what! doth death affright?
- Suffolk''. Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. / A cunning man did calculate my birth, / And told me that by ''Water'' I should die. / Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded; / Thy name is - ''Gaultier , being rightly sounded.
- And with some appellations, the contrary applies. Like Walter', for instance. You can't be '''Walter''' in a pram. You can't be ' Walter until you're about seventy-five in my view.
