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▪ I. † ˈjetter1 Obs.
Forms: α. 4–5 gettour, 4–6 getter, (5 gettare, 6 -ar); β. 4 iectour, 5 iettoure, -ir, 6 iettar, 4–7 ietter.
[ME. a. AF. *gettour = (in form) OF. geteor, -our, -eur, getteur, jetteur (also, 15th c., (after Lat.) gecteur, jecteur) thrower, caster (= It. gettatore):—pop.L. jettātōr-em = cl.L. jactātōr-em ‘one who makes an ostentatious display of himself, a boaster, a braggart’, agent-n. from jactāre: cf. jet v.1 The sense in Eng. (prob. in AFr.) was app. taken from L. jactātor, as no similar sense is recorded in continental French.]
One who boasts, vaunts, or makes an ostentatious display; a swaggering or roystering fellow; a braggadocio, bully, ‘blade’, ‘spark’.
α1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 761 Þys gentyl men, þys gettours Þey ben but Goddys turmentours. c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 281 Grete festis of riche men, as officeris of þe bischop and getteris of countre. ― Wks. (1880) 23 Þei..hanten tauernys of wyn and ale, aboute strumpetis..and gay squyeris and oþere getteris. c1440Promp. Parv. 192/1 Gettare, gestulator, gestuosus. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 616 This yere..was a great affray in Fletestrete, atwene y⊇ getters of the innys of court, and the inhabytauntes of the same strete. 1530Palsgr. 225/1 Gettar a braggar, fringuereau. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) H, The hatred that this emperour had to trewandes, reuelers, getters, iuglers, gesters.
βc1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 242 Many ietteris of contre þat wolen make hem self gentel men and han litel or nouȝt to lyue onne. ― Sel. Wks. III. 195 Manye whanne þei ben drounken comen hom..fro here cursed strumpatis and jectouris of contre, and chiden. a1400–50Alexander 4415 Iupiter [was] a Iettoure þat Iapid many ladis. Ibid. 4504 Dame Iuno was a iettir and ioyned full of iree. 1530Palsgr. 234/1 Iettar of nyght season, brigvevr. 1611Cotgr., Fringuereau, a ietter, spruce minion, gay fellow, compt youth.
▪ II. jetter2
[jet n.1]
A digger of jet.
1614N. Riding Rec. (1884) II. 67 Fr. Trewett, jeater.
▪ III. ˈjetter3
[jet v.2 + -er1.]
1. Cornish Mining. (See quot.)
1778Pryce Min. Cornub. Gloss., Pokkers and Jetters, are blocks or pullies, over which the sweep rods of some engines move and play.
2. That which jets or throws out; in quot., a geyser.
1869Baring-Gould Orig. Relig. Belief (1878) II. i. 2 Sprinkled with boiling water from a jetter in Iceland. |