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
She plays a young "widder lady" from back East who arrives in Arizona, signs on as a ranch hand and runs through the tenderfoot routine�but in style.
From Time Magazine Archive
I want folks to say there goes Rucker Blakeslees happy, good-looking, piana-playing widder.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
So what did it really matter what his widder did?
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
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