Souter vs Touter - What's the difference?
souter | touter |
(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 touter
is that souter is (scotland|northern england) a shoemaker or cobbler while touter is one who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.souter
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Chaucer)
- (Tyndale)