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Sitten vs Sitter - What's the difference?

sitten | sitter |

As nouns the difference between sitten and sitter

is that sitten is while sitter is someone who sits, eg for a portrait.

sitten

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Verb

(head)
  • *1810 , Legh Richmond, The fathers of the English church :
    • For though we your brethren, who heretofore by our vocation have sitten in the chair of Moses, and be ghostly captains as Moses and Joshua unto you; [...]

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Seated.
  • *a1513 , W. Dunbar, Poems (1998) 155 :
    • The tail?eour was no thing weill sittin , He left the sadill.
  • *c1560 , A. Scott, Poems (S.T.S.) ii. 38 :
    • He micht counter Will on horss, For Sym wes bettir sittin Nor Will.
  • Settled; stationary; not easily stirred or moved.
  • *1671 , J. Livingston, Let. to Parishoners Ancram 15 :
    • Their fire edge might help to kindle-up old sitten -up professours.

    Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    sitter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.
  • One employed to watch or tend something; the general form of babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.
    • It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.
  • A broody hen.
  • (football, and, snooker, slang) A very easy scoring chance.
    • How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter !

    See also

    * bedsitter * sit * sitting duck

    Anagrams

    * * * * ---- ==Norwegian Bokmål==

    Verb

    (head)
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