widder

See also: Widder

English

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɪdə(ɹ)

Noun

widder (plural widders)

  1. (dialectal) Alternative spelling of widow
    • 1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858:
      At the sewing- society the matter was fully discussed. Mrs. Greenfield, the doctor's wife, admitted that it would be an excellent match, "jest a child apiece, both on 'em well brought up, used to good company, and all that; but, land's sakes! he, with his mint o' money, a'n't a-goin' to marry a poor widder that ha'n't got nothin' but her husband's pictur' and her boy,--not he!"
    • 1884, William O. Stoddard, Dab Kinzer:
      And then, before the public mind had become sufficiently settled to inquire into the matter, the rumor changed itself into a piece of positive news:-- "The widder Kinzer's moved over into Ham's house, bag and baggage."
    • 1901, Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition:
      She wuz a widder fer de secon' time, an' didn' have no child'en, an' could jes' as well come as not. "
    • 1920, Marie Conway Oemler, The Purple Heights:
      I wouldn't like the missus to be a widder: she's too darn good-lookin'."
    • 1958, Robert W. Service, Ballads of a Bohemian:
      There was five of us lads from the brickyard; 'Enry was gassed at Bapome,
      Sydney was drowned in a crater, 'Erbert was 'alved by a shell;
      Joe was the pick o' the posy, might 'a bin sifely at 'ome,
      Only son of 'is mother, 'er a widder as well.

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old High German widar, from Proto-Germanic *wiþer.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋidʌ/

Adverb

widder (not comparable)

  1. (eastern and central dialects) again; another time; once more
    Dä Aal wor krank, ävver jetz es e widder jot drop.
    The old man was sick, but now he’s fine again.

Synonyms

  • erem (western Moselle Franconian)
  • werm (western Ripuarian)
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