"hadder" meaning in English

See hadder in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Contraction

Etymology: Contracted form Head templates: {{head|en|contraction}} hadder
  1. Eye dialect spelling of had to. Tags: alt-of, contraction, pronunciation-spelling Alternative form of: had to
    Sense id: en-hadder-en-contraction-dEMjKpY5 Categories (other): English eye dialect, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 92 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 92 8
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

IPA: /ˈhædə(ɹ)/ Forms: hadders [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English hader, hather, heddre, from Old English *hǣddre, a variant of hǣþ (“heath; heather”). More at heath, heather. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|hader}} Middle English hader, {{inh|en|ang|*hǣddre}} Old English *hǣddre Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} hadder (countable and uncountable, plural hadders)
  1. (obsolete or dialectal) heather or heath Tags: countable, dialectal, obsolete, uncountable
    Sense id: en-hadder-en-noun-Optm2wtz
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "hader"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English hader",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "*hǣddre"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English *hǣddre",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English hader, hather, heddre, from Old English *hǣddre, a variant of hǣþ (“heath; heather”). More at heath, heather.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hadders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "hadder (countable and uncountable, plural hadders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:",
          "text": "they lay upon the ground covered with skins, as the Redshanks do on Hadder",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "heather or heath"
      ],
      "id": "en-hadder-en-noun-Optm2wtz",
      "links": [
        [
          "heather",
          "heather"
        ],
        [
          "heath",
          "heath"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or dialectal) heather or heath"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "dialectal",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhædə(ɹ)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hadder"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Contracted form",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction"
      },
      "expansion": "hadder",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "had to"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English eye dialect",
          "parents": [
            "Eye dialect",
            "Nonstandard forms",
            "Terms by orthographic property",
            "Nonstandard terms",
            "Terms by lexical property",
            "Terms by usage"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "88 12",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "92 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Eye dialect spelling of had to."
      ],
      "id": "en-hadder-en-contraction-dEMjKpY5",
      "links": [
        [
          "had",
          "had#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "contraction",
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hadder"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English contractions",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old English",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms inherited from Old English",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "hader"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English hader",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "*hǣddre"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English *hǣddre",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Middle English hader, hather, heddre, from Old English *hǣddre, a variant of hǣþ (“heath; heather”). More at heath, heather.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "hadders",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "hadder (countable and uncountable, plural hadders)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:",
          "text": "they lay upon the ground covered with skins, as the Redshanks do on Hadder",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "heather or heath"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "heather",
          "heather"
        ],
        [
          "heath",
          "heath"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete or dialectal) heather or heath"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "dialectal",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈhædə(ɹ)/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "hadder"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English contractions",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_text": "Contracted form",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "contraction"
      },
      "expansion": "hadder",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "contraction",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "had to"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English eye dialect"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Eye dialect spelling of had to."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "had",
          "had#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "contraction",
        "pronunciation-spelling"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "hadder"
}

Download raw JSONL data for hadder meaning in English (2.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-26 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.