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Wante vs Wanter - What's the difference?

wante | wanter |

As nouns the difference between wante and wanter

is that wante is while wanter is winter.

As a verb wante

is .

wante

English

Noun

(head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1733, author=Various, title=Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But they still followed them by guess, hopeing to find their dwellings; but they soone lost both them & them selves, falling into shuch thickets as were ready to tear their cloaths & armore in peeces, but were most distressed for wante of drinke. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1621, author=Azel Ames, title=The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I trow you must excomunicate me, or els you must goe without their companie, or we shall wante no quareling; but let them pass. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=William Painter, title=The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We shall soner wante our Fathers and Senatours, then they their plebeian officers. }}

    Anagrams

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    wanter

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who wants, or who wants something
  • * {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Various, title=The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV., chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Witless hizzie, e'en 's you like, The ne'er a doit I 'm carin'; But men maun be the first to speak, An' wanters maun be speerin'. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1898, author=Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr, title=Scottish sketches, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But if Donald McFarlane wants money, he's got kin that can accommodate him, James; wanters arena always that fortunate. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1921, author=Various, title=The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=You see, the trouble with Americans is that they are the greatest wanters of cake after they've eaten it the world has ever seen. }}

    Etymology 2

    Contraction of want to

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Henry Lawson, title=Joe Wilson and His Mates, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I reckon it weighs about a ton by the weight of it if yer wanter know. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1925, author=Amy Lowell, title=Men, Women and Ghosts, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Here, lift over them crates o' oranges I wanter fix 'em in the winder." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1936-1938, author=Works Projects Administration, title=Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=My birthday over, I wanter go right home to Heaven. }}