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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hatter
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
as mad as a hatter/March hare (=completely crazy)
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
mad
▪ The mad hatter, the March hare and the dormouse.
▪ I had the family-planning abilities of a mad hatter.
▪ So both the March hare and the mad hatter are very mad.
▪ From what I can gather he was as mad as a hatter, and really no good at all.
▪ Or he's mad as a hatter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Also patron of fullers and hatters.
▪ From what I can gather he was as mad as a hatter, and really no good at all.
▪ I had the family-planning abilities of a mad hatter.
▪ Or he's mad as a hatter.
▪ So both the March hare and the mad hatter are very mad.
▪ The mad hatter, the March hare and the dormouse.
▪ Thelma Speirs is a professional hatter, and one half of the design duo Bernstock & Speirs.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hatter

Hatter \Hat"ter\, n. One who makes or sells hats.

Hatter

Hatter \Hat"ter\ (-t[~e]r), v. t. [Prov. E., to entangle; cf. LG. verhaddern, verheddern, verhiddern.] To tire or worry; -- with out. [Obs.]
--Dryden.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hatter

late 14c., from hat + -er (1).

Wiktionary
hatter

Etymology 1 n. 1 A person who makes, sells, or repairs hats. 2 (context Australia slang English) A person who lives alone in the bush. Etymology 2

vb. To tire or worry.

WordNet
hatter

n. someone who makes and sells hats [syn: hatmaker, milliner, modiste]

Wikipedia
Hatter (disambiguation)

A hatter is a person engaged in hatmaking.

Hatter(s) also may refer to:

  • The Hatter, a fictional character in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Luton Town F.C., team a.k.a. "The Hatters"
  • Stockport County F.C., team a.k.a. "The Hatters"
  • The Hatter, mascot of Stetson University's teams
  • Hatter, a fictional character in the 1970s Hatter Fox franchise originated by Marilyn Harris
  • The 'Hatters, or MadHatters, a singing group
  • A resident of Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Usage examples of "hatter".

At noon my friend the hatter came again with the ring, followed by the owner, who looked like a bravo.

There are two hatters in London who could have made this hat, and you have doubtless already observed that the crown is markedly dolichocephalic, while the curve of the brim is also characteristic.

March Hare and the Hatter were having tea at it: a Dormouse was sitting between them, fast asleep, and the other two were using it as a cushion, resting their elbows on it, and talking over its head.

They were all there, Humpty and the grinning Cat, the Dormouse and the Hatter, the March Hare, the Walrus and the Jabberwock.

Dey jowered en jowered, en bimeby, dey hatter leave it all ter Brer Rabbit.

This guy is as mad as a rucking hatter, and he thinks that he can play with the stupid policeman.

The man had porphyria, a most debilitating affliction that ultimately ruined his health and rendered him mad as a hatter.

For despite their madness, the Hare and Hatter here seem to know a good deal more than Alice does about the relations between meaning and saying.

Furthermore, after being told specifically by the Cheshire Cat that the Hatter and the March Hare are both mad, Alice, when she meets them in her next adventure, remains unin-structed and stubbornly persists in her futile attempts to relate their crazy, disordered actions to her old notions of order and sanity.

At noon my friend the hatter came again with the ring, followed by the owner, who looked like a bravo.

The room was crowded with white rabbits, Playboy bunnies, Bugs Bunny, the Wolf Man, Ku Kluxers, Ma-fiosos, Lepke with accusing eyes, a dormouse, a mad hatter, the King of Hearts, the Prince of Wands, and Jung was shouting over the din.

Barton James of number one Harmony avenue, Donnybrook, on which sat a fare, a young gentleman, stylishly dressed in an indigoblue serge suit made by George Robert Mesias, tailor and cutter, of number five Eden quay, and wearing a straw hat very dressy, bought of John Plasto of number one Great Brunswick street, hatter.

His shoes came from his personal shoemaker in Milan, his silk shirts from his shirtmaker in Geneva, his foulards from an artisan in Lyon to designs by Miss Noon, his linen from Madeira, his suits from his tailor in Brussels, his belts from his Seville beltmaker, his hats from his Bond Street hatter.

A connoisseur would have named at once the one and only firm from which that costume could have come, and the hatter who supplied the soft green Tyrolian hat--for Jane scorned pith helmets--which matched it so admirably.

The hatter availed himself of my offer of purse to lend money on pledges, whereby he made a good profit.