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fothered

fothered is the simple past and past participle of fother.

Meaning of fother

Verb

fother (third-person singular simple present fothers, present participle fothering, simple past and past participle fothered)

  1. (dialectal) To feed animals (with fother).
  2. (dated) To stop a leak with oakum or old rope (often by drawing a sail under the hull).

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Questions about fothered

What is fothered the simple past and past participle of?
Fothered is the simple past and past participle of fother.

Words near fothered in the dictionary

  1. fotemustine
  2. FOTG
  3. Foth
  4. fother
  5. Fotherby
  6. fothered
  7. Fothergill
  8. fothergilla
  9. fothergillas
  10. Fothergillian
  11. Fothergills

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fothered (page history and authors); fother (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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