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 [hat-er]  

hat·ter

1   [hat-er]
noun
a maker or seller of hats.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English; see hat, -er1

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hat·ter

2   [hat-er]
noun Australian Informal.
1.
a person who has become eccentric from living alone in a remote area.
2.
a person who lives alone in the bush, as a herder or prospector.
Origin:
1850–55; said to be from the phrase “as mad as a hatter”
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hatter (ˈhætə)
 
—n
1.  a person who makes and sells hats
2.  mad as a hatter crazily eccentric

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hatter

see mad as a hatter.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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