waterer
/wˈɔtɚɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.59 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
One who waters down, or dilutes, something.
Example Sentences
- "She has dabbled in jobs as various as plant-waterer for a garden centre, trackwork rider for a racehorse trainer and librarian's assistant […]"
- "Help me to become a pure waterer, weeder, and deadheader of our little plot, to mature from manic bride and bonnarder to the calm, the jen, of deep and ancient garden wifedom."
- "Any Community funds intended for wine producers should benefit the producers and not the manufacturers of false labels, the forgers of transit papers, the mixers or waterers of wine or the resourceful characters who defy science and produce wine without using any grapes whatsoever."
- "She installed an automatic waterer for her garden."
- "Clean the chicks' waterer each time you refill it."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *wed- Proto-Indo-European *-r̥ Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥ Proto-Germanic *watōr Proto-West Germanic *watar Old English wæter Middle English water English water English -er English waterer From water + -er.