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seether en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈsiːðə(ɹ)/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From seethe + -er.

Meanings

  1. (archaic) A pot for boiling things; a boiler.
    • Like burnished gold the little seether shone. 1717, Samuel Croxall, John Dryden, Vernon, “Book VIII”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
  2. A person who seethes.
    • Oh, she is not born like other girls / But I know how to conceive her / Oh, she may not look like other girls / But she's a snarl-toothed seether, seether! 1994, “Seether”, performed by Veruca Salt:
    • The following strategies can help a seether gain control of angry feelings. 1994, Working Mother, volume 17, number 1:

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