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▪ I. hotter, n.2 Brit. slang.|ˈhɒtə(r)|
[Back-formation, f. *hotting vbl. n. + -er1]
A person, esp. a youth, who engages in ‘hotting’; a joyrider.
1991Independent 3 Sept. 3/1 The ‘hotters’ of Blackbird Leys prepared for another night of violence yesterday as they boasted of their terrifying exploits behind the wheels of stolen high-performance cars. 1991Guardian 4 Sept. 2/3 They can do handbrake turns at 40–60 mph. The smoke from the burning tyres and exhausts is everywhere. You should see the way the hotters dodge between the police vans. 1992Today 2 Mar. 13/3 If lucky and given enough wellie (acceleration), the hotter (he who is doing the hotting) will dust or dazzle (leave behind) the filth (police).
▪ II. hotter, v. Sc. and north. dial.|ˈhɒtə(r)|
Also hatter, hutter.
[Has an iterative ending as in batter, totter, stagger; perh. related to MDu. hotten, in Flemish also hotteren to shake up; also hotten to cluster or run together, to coagulate, as milk.]
1. intr. To move up and down with vibration; to clatter; to shake, tremble, as water in boiling, or a person in rage, fear, etc.
1813W. Beattie Tales 5 (Jam.) Twa pots..Forby ane hott'rin' in the crook. 1854Dickens Hard T. i. xi, Haply, but for her, I should ha' gone hottering mad. 1857J. Scholes Jaunt to see Queen 28 (Lanc. Gloss.) Hoo wur fayr hotterin' wi' vexashun.
2. To move along with vertical vibration as over a rough surface; to run totteringly.
1796W. Marshall Yorksh. (ed. 2) Gloss. (E.D.S.), Hotter, to shake; as a carriage on a rough stoney road. 1804W. Tarras Poems 73 (Jam.) Tho' age now gars me hotter. 1805J. Nicol Poems II. 102 (Jam.) 'Twas a muir⁓hen, an' monie a pout Was rinnin, hotterin round about. 1880Gordon Bk. Chron. Keith 148 The primitive mill hottered away at the rate of six bolls of meal ground in a week.
3. a. To make a clattering noise; to rattle. b. To speak unsteadily or stammeringly.
a1823Baronne o' Gairtly vii. in A. Laing Thistle Scotl. 13 Athwart the lyft the thun'er rair'd, Wi' awfu' hottrin din. 1828Craven Dial., Hutter, to speak confusedly.
4. To cluster in a confused mass, to swarm.
1808–18Jamieson, To hotter, to crowd together, expressive of individual motion. 1891L. B. Walford Mischief of Monica xxxii, If we had been..huttering over the fire in that wretched little Albion Street on this Christmas Eve!
▪ III. hotter, n. Sc. and north. dial.
Also hatter.
[f. prec. vb.]
a. Vibratory or shaky motion as over a rough road; vertical shaking.
b. The confused motion of a crowd or swarm of small things.
c. A large number of things crowded irregularly together; a clustered mass or heap.
1825–80in Jamieson. 1836J. Struthers Dychmont ii. 448 Ah me! a perfect hotter. 1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xliii. (1873) 241 I've stan't mony a roch hotter afore noo i' the wye o' duty, as ye ken brawly, Meg.
Hence ˈhottery a., uneven so as to cause vibration.
1796W. Marshall Yorksh. (ed. 2) Gloss. (E.D.S.), Hottery, rough, as a road. 1876Whitby Gloss. s.v., ‘A hottery journey’, said of a course over uneven tracks. |