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Walter vs Welter - What's the difference?

walter | welter |

As a verb walter

is (obsolete|dialect|uk|scotland) to roll or wallow; to welter.

As a noun welter is

welter (boxing class).

walter

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * ~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

    welter

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl). Cognates include (etyl) (m) ((etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to roll; to wallow
  • (intransitive, sometimes, figurative) to be soaked or steeped in.
  • * Latimer
    • When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.
  • * Spenser
    • These wizards welter in wealth's waves.
  • * Landor
    • the priests at the altar weltering in their blood
  • To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
  • * Milton
    • the weltering waves
  • * Wordsworth
    • waves that, hardly weltering , die away
  • * Trench
    • through this blindly weltering sea
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

  • Of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race.
    • Derived terms
    * welter-weight

    Etymology 3

    Compare wilt (intransitive verb).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wither; to wilt.
  • * I. Taylor
    • Weltered hearts and blighted memories.
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