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trotter¹

Rhymes with -ɒtə(ɹ)

Where it comes from

From Middle English trottere, equivalent to trot + -er.

noun trotters

  1. One who trots. Charlie kept telling himself that Eddie Gillespie was the great runner, while he was just a quick trotter.
  2. In harness racing, a horse with a gait in which the front and back legs on opposite sides take a step together alternating with the other set of opposite legs; as opposed to a pacer. The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious ho
  3. The foot of a pig, sheep, or other quadruped, especially when prepared as meat. grange cookbook recipes for trotters
  4. slang A person's foot. Then you get up on your trotters, but you have a job to stand; / For the landscape 'round you totters and your collar's full of sand.
  5. UK, historical A tailor's assistant who goes around to receive orders. One of these proprietors is a magistrate of Oxfordshire, another a justice of the peace for Berkshire, and Stewart, who was a tailor's trotter, originally, was lately high sherriff ^([sic]) of his county.

Trotter²

Where it comes from

As an English and Scottish surname for a messenger, from trot. As a German surname, from Trotte (“winepress”).

proper noun

  1. A surname.

noun Trotters

  1. someone connected with Bolton Wanderers Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.
  2. slang A player for the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team.

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noun a horse trained for harness racing

Españoltrotón

noun the foot of a pig

Portuguêschispe

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@misc{trotter_2026,
  title = {trotter},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/trotter},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}