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Welter vs Weller - What's the difference?

welter | weller |

As adjectives the difference between welter and weller

is that welter is of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race while weller is comparative of well.

As a noun welter

is general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines.

As a verb welter

is to roll; to wallow.

As a proper noun Weller is

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welter

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl), from (etyl). Cognates include (etyl) (m) ((etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • general confusion; disorderly mixture; aimless effort; as, a welter of papers and magazines

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • to roll; to wallow
  • (intransitive, sometimes, figurative) to be soaked or steeped in.
  • * Latimer
    • When we welter in pleasures and idleness, then we eat and drink with drunkards.
  • * Spenser
    • These wizards welter in wealth's waves.
  • * Landor
    • the priests at the altar weltering in their blood
  • To rise and fall, as waves; to tumble over, as billows.
  • * Milton
    • the weltering waves
  • * Wordsworth
    • waves that, hardly weltering , die away
  • * Trench
    • through this blindly weltering sea
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    Adjective

  • Of horsemen, heavyweight; as, a welter race.
    • Derived terms
    * welter-weight

    Etymology 3

    Compare wilt (intransitive verb).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To wither; to wilt.
  • * I. Taylor
    • Weltered hearts and blighted memories.
    English terms with multiple etymologies ----

    weller

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (well)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1822, author=Charles and Mary Lamb, title=The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6), chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Emma is looking weller and handsomer (as you say) than ever. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Henry Sydnor Harrison, title=V. V.'s Eyes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He forgot the Huns; forgot John the Baptist; forgot even his sick, till one of the weller of them (as we may assume) knocked memorially upon his door.... }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Samuel Hopkins Adams, title=From a Bench in Our Square, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Now we come home he is already weller . }}