whitster
English
Etymology
Contracted from whitester.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɪtstə(ɹ)/, /ˈhwɪtstə(ɹ)/
Noun
whitster (plural whitsters)
- Obsolete spelling of whitester.
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
- the whitsters in Datchet mead
See also
- whityer
References
- “whitster”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.