Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who wants; one who is in need.
- noun An unmarried person who wants a mate.
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- noun One who
wants , or who wants something - verb
Eye dialect spelling ofwant to .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who wants or needs something
Etymologies
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Examples
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As far as more toys, it would be nice, but I don't want to get my "wanter" stuck on too much new stuff.
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I ain 'said nuffin' ter you 'bout it, Mars Dick, fer I did n 'wanter' sturb yo 'min'; but I don 'like it, suh; no, suh, I don'!
The Wife of his Youth and Other Stories of the Color Line, and Selected Essays 1895
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They say she was a size 0 when she came to work and Bay wanter her a little thicker, around 2 or 4.
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A headline wanter who looks like he's trying too hard to be what he THINKS voters are looking for.
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Eszter Ujhazi from Budapest, the e-mail sender, wanter Doctor Sibia to help his dog suffering from cancer.
GETTING A NEGATIVE NOD FROM US, UK LIKE NATIONS, HUNGARIAN DOG IS NOW COMING TO INDIA FOR TREATMENT 2009
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Guy, have a wanter through the Mini-Burger archives.
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I wanted to get a few photos with raindrops on the petals and also wanter to catch some of the Irises before they were faded entirely.
Crappy Weather But The Flowers Are Beautiful! « Mudpuddle 2006
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I wanted to get a few photos with raindrops on the petals and also wanter to catch some of the Irises before they were faded entirely.
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I wanted to get a few photos with raindrops on the petals and also wanter to catch some of the Irises before they were faded entirely.
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I wanted to get a few photos with raindrops on the petals and also wanter to catch some of the Irises before they were faded entirely.
Crappy Weather But The Flowers Are Beautiful! « Mudpuddle 2006
mollusque commented on the word wanter
To insert the same wanter in the same paper would have been foolhardy: what if it were to bring back Lyuba, flushed with renewed hope, and rewind that damned cycle all over again?
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 87
June 7, 2009
yarb commented on the word wanter
Not clear what the sense is here - one who wants? Or something more bodaciously Nabokovian?
June 7, 2009
mollusque commented on the word wanter
Prosaic, not bodacious: it's referring to a want ad for a typist. But prosaic in a Nabokovian way.
June 8, 2009