munter

Late 1990s, presumably from munt (“to vomit”) and munted (“inebriated; disgusting”) +‎ -er, perhaps with influence from Turkish mantar (“mushroom”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmʌn.tə/

• Audio (Northern England); [ˈmʊn.ʔə]:

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• Rhymes: -ʌntə(ɹ)

munter (plural munters)

1. (UK, Ireland, slang, derogatory) An ugly person.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:ugly person

   I'm never going to date her; she's a right munter.

2. (Commonwealth, slang) A person often impaired by alcohol or recreational drugs.

   He's a real munter; he was really munted at the party.

• muntered (“drunk”)
• munted (“drunk”)

Borrowed from Middle French montre.

• monter, mounter, muntour, montour, mountour, muntoure, muntor, muntar

• (without the foot-strut split, without approximant /r/) IPA^(key): [ˈmʊn.tər]

munter (plural munters)

1. (obsolete, Scotland, pre-1700) A watch (portable timepiece).
   • 1831, Archaeologia Scotica: Or Transactions of the Society of the Antiquaries of Scotland, page 80:

     […] asked the other what a clocke it was in his mounter; to whom he replyed, About the howre just that yee should give watter to your mare.

   • 1841, John Jamieson, Scottish Dictionary and Supplement: In Four Volumes. Suppl. Kab-Zic, page 141:

     […] clocks, watches, and munters, boots and shooes, shal be given up by the merchant-sellers there-of, under declaration to the commissioners, "&c. Acts Cha. I. Ed. 1814, VI. 152. […]

From German munter (“merry, awake”).

• IPA^(key): /mɔntər/, [ˈmɔnˀd̥ɐ]

munter

1. merry, cheerful

• fornøjet
• fornøjelig, lystig

• munterhed

From Middle High German munter, from Old High German muntar, from Proto-West Germanic *mundr, from Proto-Germanic *mundraz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʊntɐ/
• Rhymes: -ʊntɐ

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munter (strong nominative masculine singular munterer, comparative munterer, superlative am muntersten)

1. merry, awake, brisk, cheery

   Synonyms: rege, lebhaft

   Antonyms: müde, matt, schlapp

• putzmunter

• aufmunternd
• ermunternd

• → Danish: munter
• → Dutch: monter
  • → West Frisian: monter
• → German Low German: munter
• → Luxembourgish: monter
• → Norwegian: munter
• → Plautdietsch: munta
• → Saterland Frisian: munter
• → Swedish: munter

• “munter”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “munter” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “munter” in Duden online

From Middle High German munter, from Old High German muntar

• IPA^(key): /ˈmunta/
• Rhymes: -unta
• Syllabification: mun‧ter

munter

1. cheerful, happy, merry

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “munter”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch

From German munter.

munter (neuter singular muntert, definite singular and plural muntre, comparative muntrere, indefinite superlative muntrest, definite superlative muntreste)

1. cheerful

• “munter” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From German munter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmʉntɛr/

munter (neuter singular muntert, definite singular and plural muntre, comparative muntrare, indefinite superlative muntrast, definite superlative muntraste)

1. cheerful

• “munter” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

munter

1. alternative form of monter

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

From German munter. Compare Dutch monter.

munter

1. awake; sharp; alert
2. lively; sprightly

From German munter

munter (comparative muntrare, superlative muntrast)

1. cheerful, merry, happy

• muntra upp
• uppmuntra

• “munter”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “munter”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “munter”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

• numret