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sitter

noun
/ˈsɪtə/UK/ˈsɪtɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English sitter, sittere, syttare, equivalent to sit + -er.

  1. inherited from sitter

Definitions

  1. Someone who sits, e.g. for a portrait.

  2. One employed to watch or tend something

    One employed to watch or tend something; a babysitter, housesitter, petsitter, etc.

    • It's always such a pain to get a sitter on short notice.

  3. A sitting room.

  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. A participant in a séance.

      • "The sitters had better just take their own places," said the medium.

    2. A broody hen.

    3. A very easy scoring chance.

      • How could he miss that? It was an absolute sitter!
      • Aaron Ramsey, a hero last season against Hull, missed a sitter at the end of normal time that would have made the game safe and must have been relieved that his shot against a post from four yards out did not cost his side more dearly.

    4. Someone who accompanies a person who is taking a psychedelic drug, to provide reassurance…

      Someone who accompanies a person who is taking a psychedelic drug, to provide reassurance in case of a bad trip.

    5. A surname.

    6. A river in north-east Switzerland, a tributary of the Thur.

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Derived

aisle sitter, babysitter, bedsitter, bed-sitter, birdsitter, bysitter, catsitter, childsitter, dogsitter, facesitter, fence-sitter, fence sitter, granny-sitter, hand-sitter, homesitter, house-sitter, house sitter, nonsitter, petsitter, pigsitter, polesitter, pole-sitter, puppysitter, sitter-in, tailsitter, teen-sitter, trip sitter, window sitter

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for sitter. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA