Wanter vs Walter - What's the difference?
wanter | walter |
One who wants, or who wants something
* {{quote-book, year=1857, author=Various, title=The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV., chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Henry Lawson, title=Joe Wilson and His Mates, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, passage=My birthday over, I wanter go right home to Heaven. }}
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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 wanter
is winter.As a verb walter is
(obsolete|dialect|uk|scotland) to roll or wallow; to welter.wanter
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Etymology 2
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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.
