Pitcher
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pitcher¹
- /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/ UK
- [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃə] UK
- /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/ Canadian, US, Standard
- [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɹ̩] Canadian, US, Standard
Sounds like picture (regional) · Rhymes with -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From pitch + -er.
noun pitchers
- One who pitches (in any sense) anything A tent pitcher
- The player who delivers the ball to the batter. A “pitchometer” was installed on the scoreboard to time the pitchers. According the baseball rules a pitcher had to throw a pitch within 20 seconds after he received the ball from the catcher when there was nobody on base.
- A drug dealer. To the residents of Spanish Harlem, these pitchers embodied the drug trade at its most sinister; they were the dealers and pushers who were destroying their neighborhood.
- One who puts counterfeit money into circulation. To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
- The top partner in a homosexual relationship or penetrator in a sexual encounter between two men.
- A sort of crowbar for digging.
- One who makes a pitch or proposal. The pitcher of the new film stands to earn millions.
- A person who sells anything in the streets.
pitcher²
- /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/ UK
- [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃə] UK
- /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/ Canadian, US, Standard
- [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɹ̩] Canadian, US, Standard
Sounds like picture (regional) · Rhymes with -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
Where it comes from
From Middle English picher, from Old French pichier, pechier (“small jug”), bichier (compare modern French pichet), from Late Latin or Medieval Latin pīcārium, alteration of bīcārium, itself possibly from bacarium, bacar or from Ancient Greek βῖκος (bîkos). Doublet of beaker.
noun pitchers
- A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle. At length, in a refrigerator, Eve finds a glass pitcher of water, pure, cold, and bright as ever gushed from a fountain among the hills.
- A tubular or cuplike appendage or expansion of the leaves of certain plants. See pitcher plant. Walking into the pitcher on downward pointing hairs, victims slip and drown in the funnel. But this beetle (left) was observed to visit with impunity and even appeared to be scavenging insect bodies from the pitcher.
pitcher³
- /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ə/ UK
- [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃə] UK
- /ˈpɪt͡ʃ.ɚ/ Canadian, US, Standard
- [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɚ] ~ [ˈpʰɪt͡ʃɹ̩] Canadian, US, Standard
Sounds like picture (regional) · Rhymes with -ɪtʃə(ɹ)
noun pitchers
- Pronunciation spelling of picture, representing dialectal English.picture She's purtier'n uh pitcher, son, but what in th' name o' thunderin' snakes c'n you do with 'er in this here country?
Pitcher⁴
proper noun Pitchers
- A surname.
