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Souter vs Souper - What's the difference?

souter | souper |

As nouns the difference between souter and souper

is that souter is (scotland|northern england) a shoemaker or cobbler while souper is (ireland|historical) someone who, during the irish famine, supplied food such as soup to catholics who converted to protestantism.

souter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (Scotland, northern England) A shoemaker or cobbler.
    • (Chaucer)
    (Tyndale)
  • *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.

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    souper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Ireland, historical) Someone who, during the Irish famine, supplied food such as soup to Catholics who converted to Protestantism.
  • (Ireland, historical) A (former) Catholic who converted to Protestantism in order to gain such food.
    • Croghan Soupers

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    * souperism

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