widdy

¹ American  

[wid-ee] / ˈwɪd i /

Also widdie,

noun

Chiefly Scot.

plural

widdies

1. a band or rope, traditionally one made from intertwined willow twigs.

2. a hangman's rope; noose.

---

widdy ² American  

[wid-ee] / ˈwɪd i /

noun

Dialect.

plural

widdies

1. widow.

---

Etymology

Origin of widdy¹

1400–50; late Middle English (north), variant of withy

Origin of widdy²

Analogous to widder, with -y ²

Example Sentences

I'm a respictable widdy lady what keeps to home and minds my own washin', and they can't no man nor woman, nuther, get a chance to sass me through any mash-ine.

From Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls by Newberry, Fannie E.

"What's all the w-u-u-rld to a man when his wife is a widdy?"

From Woodcraft by Sears, George Washington

"Whin ye got word of her death last year, was ye a broken-hearted widdy or was ye not?"

From The Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

As I toult ye, twas about the widdy Magee.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

"I have a towken that ye're not the widdy ye think ye are."

From The Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell