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feuterer

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
feuter-er
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.

Obsolete

Example Sentences

Etymology

Either from German Fütterer (“feeder”) (see füttern), or corrupted from Old French vautrier, vaultrier, from vaultre, viautre (“a kind of hound”), from Latin vertragus, vertraga (“a greyhound”). The last is of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from Proto-Celtic *uɸor- (“over”) + *tregess (“foot”).

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: Fütterer, vautrier, vertragus, -, *uɸor-

Usage

Inflected Forms

feuterers (plural) fewterer (alternative) vewter (alternative)

Questions

What does feuterer mean?
A keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.
Where does feuterer come from?
It is traced to German.

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