blotter

blot +‎ -er

• Rhymes: -ɒtə(ɹ)

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:

     "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.

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

• “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

• Roblett, Tolbert, bottler

Unadapted borrowing from English blotter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈblateɾ/, [ˈbl̪a.t̪ɪɾ̪]

blotter

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

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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈb̥lʌd̥ə]

From blotte (“to expose”) +‎ er.

blotter c (singular definite blotteren, plural indefinite blottere)

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

• “blotter” in Den Danske Ordbog

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

blotter

1. present of blotte

Unadapted borrowing from English blotter.

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

blotter (Baybayin spelling ᜊ᜔ᜎᜆᜒᜇ᜔)

1. Alternative spelling of blater

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