Waltzer vs Walter - What's the difference?
waltzer | walter |
One who dances the waltz.
A fairground ride consisting of a number of cars that spin individually while rotating around a central point like a carousel.
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* ~1590 , Henry VI, Part II, Act IV, Scene I
* 1991 , Talking It Over , ISBN 0-224-03157-0 page 13:
As a noun waltzer
is one who dances the waltz.As a verb walter is
(obsolete|dialect|uk|scotland) to roll or wallow; to welter.waltzer
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Noun
(wikipedia waltzer) (en noun)walter
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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.