feuterer

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noun

A keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.

OriginGerman Fütterer ← Old French vautrier ← Latin vertragus →
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Meanings

nounfeuterer (plural feuterers)

plural feuterers · alternative fewterer · alternative vewter

  1. obsoleteA keeper of dogs, especially of greyhounds.

    You yeoman phevvterer, conduct mee to / The Lady of the manſion, or my poniard / Shall diſemboge thy ſoule.

    c. 1621–1623 (date written), Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour. […], London: […] I[ohn] B[eale] for Robert Allot, […], published 1632, →OCLC, Act II, scene ii, signatures D2, verso – D3, recto

Origin

  1. Proto-Celtic*uɸor-“over”
  2. Latinvertragus
  3. Old Frenchvautrier
  4. GermanFütterer“feeder”
  5. Englishfeuterer

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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