wedder
See also: Wedder
English
editEtymology 1
editNoun
editwedder (plural wedders)
- A person who marries.
- 1864, St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review, volume 9, page 239:
- The wedder of the heiress! is his lot all bliss when he has made the grand coup, and married for money after a long career of debts, difiiculties, and dishonoured bills? I think not; […]
Synonyms
edit- See Thesaurus:spouse
Etymology 2
editNoun
editwedder (plural wedders)
- (obsolete, regional) Alternative form of wether (“castrated buck goat or ram”)
- 1829, Rob Roy[1], Walter Scott, Introduction to the 1829 edition:
- They then retreated to an out-house, took a wedder from the fold, killed it, and supped off the carcass, for which (it is said) they offered payment to the proprietor.
- 1840, Patrick Leslie, Diary entry for 21 February, 1840, cited in Henry Stuart Russell, The Genesis of Queensland, Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1888, Chapter 7,[2]
- Our stock consisted of four thousand breeding ewes in lamb, one hundred ewe hoggets, one thousand wedder hoggets, one hundred rams, and five hundred wedders, three and four years old.
Dutch
editEtymology
editFrom wedden (“to bet, wager”) + -er.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwedder m (plural wedders, diminutive weddertje n)
Synonyms
editRelated terms
editMiddle English
editNoun
editwedder
- Alternative form of weder
Scots
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English wether, wethir, wedyr, from Old English weþer (“wether, ram”), from Proto-Germanic *weþruz (“wether”), from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwedder (plural wedders)
Derived terms
edit- Dunbaur wedder (“salted herring”)
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