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Quoter vs Quotee - What's the difference?

quoter | quotee |

As nouns the difference between quoter and quotee

is that quoter is someone who quotes while quotee is somebody whose words are being quoted.

quoter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Someone who quotes.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1876, author=William Sanday, title=The Gospels in the Second Century, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Irenaeus is described by Dr. Tregelles 'as a close and careful quoter in general from the New Testament' [Endnote 49:2]. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Editor= R. Brimley Johnson, title=Famous Reviews, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Every man is, according to Mr. Hunt, a dull potato-eating blockhead--of no greater value to God or man than any ox or dray-horse--who is not an admirer of Voltaire's romans , a worshipper of Lord Holland and Mr. Haydon and a quoter of John Buncle and Chaucer's Flower and Leaf. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2005, date=November 18, author=David Whiteis, title=A Proper Good-bye, work=Chicago Reader citation
  • , passage=Even before he began attending services at Harmony Community Baptist--just a few doors down South Millard from the house where he and Eula lived for decades--he'd been a "very good quoter of the Bible," Eula says, and in short order he became a deacon. }}

    quotee

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Somebody whose words are being quoted.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 15, author=Patricia T. O’Conner, title=Like, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Or it can summarize the inner thoughts of either the quoter or the quotee (“She’s like, yeah, as if I’d be caught dead in them! }}