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Wotcher

Posted by Kit on July 21, 2003

In Reply to: Wotcher posted by Brian from Shawnee on July 21, 2003

: What does "wotcher" mean? One of the characters in the new Harry Potter book keeps saying it. I am reading the American translation, but they did not translate that word. Thanks...

It is simply a greeting, similar to 'Hello' or 'Hi', but more colloquial. You'd have to get the origin from someone else more versed in the subject. Probably dervied by simplifying and amalgamating "what you up to?" into one word.

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