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 of want to.

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  • noun a person who wants or needs something

Etymologies

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want +‎ -er

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Contraction of want to

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  • 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

  • Not clear what the sense is here - one who wants? Or something more bodaciously Nabokovian?

    June 7, 2009

  • Prosaic, not bodacious: it's referring to a want ad for a typist. But prosaic in a Nabokovian way.

    June 8, 2009