Walter vs Wafter - What's the difference?
walter | wafter |
As a verb walter is (obsolete|dialect|uk|scotland) to roll or wallow; to welter. As a noun wafter is (obsolete) armed convoy or escort ship or wafter can be one who, or that which, wafts.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
walter English
Proper noun
( en proper noun)
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* ~1590 , Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene I
- Whitmore . And so am I; my name is Walter Whitmore. / How now! why start'st thou? what! doth death affright?
- Suffolk''. Thy name affrights me, in whose sound is death. / A cunning man did calculate my birth, / And told me that by ''Water'' I should die. / Yet let not this make thee be bloody-minded; / Thy name is - ''Gaultier , being rightly sounded.
* 1991 , Talking It Over , ISBN 0-224-03157-0 page 13:
- And with some appellations, the contrary applies. Like Walter', for instance. You can't be '''Walter''' in a pram. You can't be ' Walter until you're about seventy-five in my view.
Related terms
* (pet forms ) Wally, Walt, Wat
* (surnames ) Gwatkin, Walters, Waters, Waterson, Watkin, Watkins, Watkinson, Watson, Watt, Watts
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wafter English
Etymology 1
Alteration of (etyl) waughter'', from (etyl) or (etyl) ''wachter'' (a guard), from ''wachten (to guard)
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) Armed convoy or escort ship
(obsolete) An agent of the Crown with responsibility for protecting specific maritime activities, such as shipping or fishing.
Etymology 2
Noun
( en noun)
One who, or that which, wafts.
- Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane — Beaumont and Fletcher.
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