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souter en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈsuːtə/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈsu.tɚ/ (General-American)

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English soutere, from Old English sūtere, from Latin sūtor (“shoemaker, cobbler”).

Meanings

1. (Northern-England, Scotland) A shoemaker or cobbler.
   • There is no work better than another to please God : to pour water , to wash dishes , to be a souter (cobbler) , or an apostle 1527, William Tyndale, The Parable of the Wicked Mammon:
   • He was a shoemaker, the creature, and called himself the Sutor, an old-fashioned name that folk laughed at. 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 31:

Forms

Deriveds

souterly