feuterer

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds. obsolete
    — You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule.

词形变化

feuterers plural fewterer alternative vewter alternative

词源

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”).
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