What's the difference between hatter and ratter?

Hatter


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To tire or worry; -- out.
  • (n.) One who makes or sells hats.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The idea that hatters were "mad" stemmed from popular perceptions more than from medical knowledge.
  • (2) Donald Trump’s mad hatter ramblings are outside the conservative reform movement and we will continue onward to deny him the nomination.” Kasich did not compete in Indiana as a result of a pact with Cruz and has so far only won his home state of Ohio.
  • (3) You can watch as "the Mad Hatter gets even madder", and throw pepper at the Duchess.
  • (4) Its ground floor is decorated only in yellow, its first floor only in red; there’s Cole Porter on the gramophone and the Hatter himself serving in full costume.
  • (5) To our left sat a stolid middle-aged black couple in the Mad Hatter attire that has become part of the South African football fan's kit.
  • (6) Conventional wisdom holds that the "Mad Hatter" of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland earned his name because he exhibited psychotic behavior from mercury poisoning.
  • (7) The reviewer gave me two stars, the same day I got a tweet off the rabbit asking if he could bring the Mad Hatter and the Dormouse to my show.
  • (8) Discussed are coal miners' nystagmus, scrotal cancer in chimney sweeps, phossy jaw, hatters' shakes, painters' colic, potters' rot, chauffeurs' knee, glanders, caisson disease, and others.
  • (9) Many of those attending wore costumes depicting the Mad Hatter, Wonder Woman or the scary rabbit character from the cult movie Donnie Darko .
  • (10) Depp, who only last week agreed to play Charlie Mortdecai in a film based on Kyril Bonfiglioli's books about the eccentric and debonair English art dealer, will once again portray the Mad Hatter in Hollywood's latest riff on the classic Lewis Carroll tale.
  • (11) I can’t really see the terrific Cabinet Battle #1 (“Madison, you’re mad as a hatter, son, take your medicine.
  • (12) The hatters' occupational disease was curbed only in 1941 when mercury was required for the manufacture of detonators in World War II.
  • (13) The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party The choreographer Kate Prince has drawn on fairy tales, Shakespeare and the musical theatre of Stephen Sondheim in her crusade to mine the theatrical and family friendship possibilities of hip-hop.
  • (14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Royal Ballet’s Steven McRae, left, and Turbo from ZooNation join forces for The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party.
  • (15) From Edward Scissorhands' gothic pallor to Jack Sparrow's guyliner-friendly swashbuckling, his rose-tinted Mad Hatter to his dazzle-painted Tonto, Johnny Depp has always been partial to a bit of greasepaint.
  • (16) The hatters of New Jersey were not only not mad, but neither were they, the physicians, nor the public of the period sufficiently angry to control the conditions under which the hatters worked.
  • (17) Baron Cohen is also preparing to play the villain, Time, in the forthcoming sequel to Alice in Wonderland, with Johnny Depp reprising his Mad Hatter role alongside Helena Bonham Carter and Mia Wasikowska.
  • (18) Nearby is the eccentric Mad Hatter’s Tea Rooms (9 Lombard Street), a shrine to vintage.
  • (19) And then there’s returns for his Mad Hatter and Jack Sparrow, a pair of cast-iron hits.
  • (20) The pathologic shyness of mercurialism, however, was not noted in New Jersey hatters until 1912.

Ratter


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.
  • (n.) Anything which catches rats; esp., a dog trained to catch rats; a rat terrier. See Terrier.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I rather like Bryant – a "little wire-haired ratter", according to Daphne – who becomes increasingly bombastic as the book proceeds.