Walter vs Welter - What's the difference?
walter | welter |
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* ~1590 , Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene I
* 1991 , Talking It Over , ISBN 0-224-03157-0 page 13:
general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines
to roll; to wallow
(intransitive, sometimes, figurative) to be soaked or steeped in.
* Latimer
* Spenser
* Landor
To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
* Milton
* Wordsworth
* Trench
Of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race.
To wither; to wilt.
* I. Taylor
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)- 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.
welter
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl). Cognates include (etyl) (m) ((etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)- When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.
- These wizards welter in wealth's waves.
- the priests at the altar weltering in their blood
- the weltering waves
- waves that, hardly weltering , die away
- through this blindly weltering sea
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Adjective
Derived terms
* welter-weightEtymology 3
Compare wilt (intransitive verb).Verb
(en verb)- Weltered hearts and blighted memories.
