blotter

English

Etymology

blot +‎ -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

Noun

blotter (plural blotters)

1. A piece of blotting paper in a pad as a piece of desk furniture.

   Synonym: desk pad

2. (law enforcement) A daily register of arrests and other events in a police station.

   Synonym: police blotter

3. A register of the related events made in the form of the list of times and brief descriptions.

   All transactions were entered in the cash blotter and agent's subsidiary ledger.

   He maintains the political blotter blog.

   • 2003, Karen Hood-Caddy, The Wisdom of Water‎^[1]:

     "The blotter was so full of his scribbling, it was getting harder and harder to find places to write in."

4. (slang) A portion of blotter acid.
   • 2012, Alex Wyndham Baker, Cursive:

     Glass bottles of liquid LSD; moist blocks of Manali charras and Malana cream; sachets of smack; a hundred caps of MDMA and a phial of Australian DMT; ampoules of medical morphine and a dense pad of four thousand Californian blotters.

Derived terms

• blotter acid
• blotter art
• blottery
• police blotter
• trade blotter

Translations

piece of blotting paper — see blotting paper

police station register

• Bulgarian: регистър (bg) m (registǎr)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 記事簿／记事簿 (zh) (jìshìbù)

• German: Protokollbuch n, Polizeiregister n
• Italian: registro (it) m, brogliaccio (it) m
• Russian: журна́л (ru) m (žurnál) (регистра́ции приво́дов в полице́йском уча́стке), реги́стр (ru) m (regístr), кни́га за́писей f (kníga zápisej)

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Translations to be checked

• Hebrew: מספג (maspeig)

References

• “blotter”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “blotter”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• Jonathon Green (2024) “blotter n.¹”, in Green’s Dictionary of Slang
• blotter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Roblett, Tolbert, bottler

Cebuano

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blotter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblateɾ/, [ˈbl̪a.t̪ɪɾ̪]

Noun

blotter

1. blotting paper
2. (law enforcement) police blotter

Usage notes

According to the prescribed standard Cebuano orthography created by Bisaya magazine, since adapted by Department of Education Region VII and the Komisyon Probinsyal sa Sinugbuanong Dila (Provincial Commission on the Cebuano Language), unadapted borrowings (direktang paghulam) in Cebuano should be written in italics. In practice, this prescription is not always followed.

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥lʌd̥ə]

Etymology 1

From blotte (“to expose”) +‎ er.

Noun

blotter c (singular definite blotteren, plural indefinite blottere)

1. flasher, exhibitionist (a person exposing his or her genitalia in public)

Declension

Declension of blotter

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	blotter	blotteren	blottere	blotterne
genitive	blotters	blotterens	blotteres	blotternes

Further reading

• “blotter” in Den Danske Ordbog

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

blotter

1. present of blotte

Tagalog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English blotter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblateɾ/, [ˈbla.tɛɾ]
• Syllabification: blo‧tter

Noun

blotter (Baybayin spelling ᜊ᜔ᜎᜆᜒᜇ᜔)

1. Alternative spelling of blater

Further reading

• “blotter”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018