Withers vs Witters - What's the difference?
withers | witters |
(veterinary medicine) The part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades; in many species the highest point of the body and the standard place to measure the animal's height.
(wither)
(witter)
(intransitive, intransitive, obsolete, or, dialectal) to make sure, inform, or declare.
to speak at length on a trivial subject.
As verbs the difference between withers and witters
is that withers is third-person singular of wither while witters is third-person singular of witter.As a noun withers
is the part of the back of a four-legged animal that is between the shoulder blades; in many species the highest point of the body and the standard place to measure the animal's height.As a proper noun Withers
is {{surname}.withers
English
(wikipedia withers)Noun
(en-plural noun)Usage notes
Although this noun refers to one object, there is no corresponding singular form *(term) for this word, the singular form being obsolete.Coordinate terms
* scruffHyponyms
* napeDerived terms
* fistulous withers * wither-wrung * wring one's withersVerb
(head)References
Anagrams
* *witters
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*witter
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) witter, witer, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) witteren, witeren, of (etyl) origin, from (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Verb
(en verb)- She got home and started wittering about some religious cult she’d just heard about.