widder
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of widder
By reduction of final vowel to ə and substitution of -er 1
Example Sentences
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There is what in the old talking pictures they called a "widder" woman; there is a schoolmarm and a cocky young gunslinger.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 22, 2017
Steven Soderbergh western features Jeff Daniels as an outlaw out to settle a score, and Michelle Dockery a tough widder woman in the New Mexico town he's headed for.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2017
I want folks to say there goes Rucker Blakeslees happy, good-looking, piana-playing widder.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
They’s three mo’ widder women in town, how come dey don’t break dey neck after dem?
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
The banker throws the poor old widder in the pokey.
From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck
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