"widder" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: widders [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪdə(ɹ) Head templates: {{en-noun}} widder (plural widders)
  1. (dialectal) Alternative spelling of widow Tags: alt-of, alternative, dialectal Alternative form of: widow
    Sense id: en-widder-en-noun-wephW8hk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1858, Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858",
          "text": "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!\"",
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          "ref": "1884, William O. Stoddard, Dab Kinzer",
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          "ref": "1901, Charles W. Chesnutt, The Marrow of Tradition",
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          "ref": "1920, Marie Conway Oemler, The Purple Heights",
          "text": "I wouldn't like the missus to be a widder: she's too darn good-lookin'.\"",
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          "ref": "1958, Robert W. Service, Ballads of a Bohemian",
          "text": "There was five of us lads from the brickyard; 'Enry was gassed at Bapome,\nSydney was drowned in a crater, 'Erbert was 'alved by a shell;\nJoe was the pick o' the posy, might 'a bin sifely at 'ome,\nOnly son of 'is mother, 'er a widder as well.",
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