Walter vs Walker - What's the difference?
walter | walker |
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* ~1590 , Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene I
* 1991 , Talking It Over , ISBN 0-224-03157-0 page 13:
: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.
* 1816 , (Jane Austen), , Volume 1 Chapter 8
* 2005 , Carlo De Vito, 10 Secrets My Dog Taught Me: Life Lessons from a Man's Best Friend (page 88)
A walking frame.
(often, in the plural) A shoe designed for comfortable walking.
A person who walks (or waulks) cloth, that is, who fulls it.
A male escort who accompanies a woman to an event.
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* 1981 , Spare rib: Volumes 108-119
* 1984 , Clemens David Heymann, Poor little rich girl: the life and legend of Barbara Hutton
* 2007 , (The Walker) (film about a male escort)
As proper nouns the difference between walter and walker
is that walter is a given name derived from Germanic while Walker is {{surname|northern English|from=occupations}} from the occupation of treating cloth by "walking" it.As a verb walter
is to roll or wallow; to welter.As a noun walker is
The agent noun of to walk: a person who walks or a thing which walks, especially a pedestrian or a participant in a walking race.As an interjection Walker is
expressing scornful rejection or disbelief.walter
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- 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.
- 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.
walker
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I would ask for the pleasure of your company, Mr. Knightley, but I am a very slow walker , and my pace would be tedious to you; and, besides, you have another long walk before you, to Donwell Abbey."
- We hired a walker for the dogs during the day.
- Women at the top — Lady Di and Nancy Reagan in particular — apparently have 'walkers' — men to escort them on public and private occasions providing a respectable cover, while the male who is their sexual partner is off on more pressing business.
- In the vernacular of the trade, he was what is commonly known as "a walker " — an entertaining male escort who is usually sexually unthreatening