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didder

didder verb: to rattle or shiver.

Verb

didder (third-person singular simple present didders, present participle diddering, simple past and past participle diddered)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) To rattle or shiver.

Forms of didder

third-person singular presentdidders
present participlediddering
past participlediddered
pastdiddered

Origin of didder

From Middle English didderen (“to tremble”); see dither.

Words formed from didder

Questions about didder

What does didder mean?
Didder means to rattle or shiver.
What part of speech is didder?
Didder is a verb.
What is the past tense of didder?
The past tense of didder is diddered.

Words near didder in the dictionary

  1. didaskaleinophobia
  2. didcap
  3. didcaps
  4. Didcot
  5. didde
  6. didder
  7. diddered
  8. diddering
  9. didders
  10. diddest
  11. diddicoi

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