Souter vs Douter - What's the difference?
souter | douter |
(Scotland, northern England) A shoemaker or cobbler.
*1932 , (Lewis Grassic Gibbon), Sunset Song'', Polygon 2006 (''A Scots Quair ), p. 31:
*:He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor , an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at.
As nouns the difference between souter and douter
is that souter is a shoemaker or cobbler while douter is an extinguisher for candles.souter
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Tyndale)