▪ I. greeter1
(ˈgriːtə(r))
[f. greet v.1 + -er1.]
One who greets, or salutes.
| 1552 Huloet, Greter or brynger of a gretynge, salutiger. 1611 Cotgr., Saluëur, a saluter, a greeter. 1780 F. Burney Diary May, She used to be my constant elbow companion, and most smiling greeter. 1853 E. S. Sheppard Ch. Auchester II. 116 Only half the students had returned, and they..were standing in self-interested fraternities, broken by groups and greeters. 1868 Daily News 6 July, The outbursts of cheering that would have greeted him if the greeters had not been [etc.]. |
▪ II. greeter2 Sc.
(ˈgriːtə(r))
[f. greet v.2 + -er1.]
One who ‘greets’ or cries.
| 17.. Yng. Ronald xvii. in Child Ballads (1898) V. 183 I've heard greeters at your school-house..But for to hear an auld man greet, It passes bairns' play. |