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wanter | wanner |

As a noun wanter

is winter.

As an adjective wanner is

(wan).

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. }}

    wanner

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (wan)
    • ----

    wan

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (wanner)
  • Pale, sickly-looking.
  • * Spenser
    • Sad to view, his visage pale and wan .
  • * Longfellow
    • the wan moon overhead
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1921 , year_published=2012 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Efficiency Expert , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=She looked wan and worried, ... }}
  • Dim, faint.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=’twas so far away, that evil day when I prayed to the Prince of Gloom / For the savage strength and the sullen length of life to work his doom. / Nor sign nor word had I seen or heard, and it happed so long ago; / My youth was gone and my memory wan , and I willed it even so.
    • , title=(Ballads of a Cheechako) , chapter=(The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike) , author=Robert W. Service , year=1909}}
  • Bland, uninterested.
    • A wan expression

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being wan; wanness.
  • * Tennyson
    • Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.

    Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (win)

    • Anagrams

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