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hadder

/ˈhædə(ɹ)/

hadder noun: heather or heath. Also the eye dialect spelling of had to.

Noun

hadder (countable and uncountable, plural hadders)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) heather or heath
    • they lay upon the ground covered with skins, as the Redshanks do on Hadder1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC

Also used as

hadder is also the eye dialect spelling of had to.

Forms of hadder

pluralhadders

Origin of hadder

From Middle English hader, hather, heddre, from Old English *hǣddre, a variant of hǣþ (“heath; heather”). More at heath, heather.

Contracted form

Questions about hadder

What does hadder mean?
Hadder means heather or heath.
What part of speech is hadder?
Hadder is a noun.
How do you pronounce hadder?
Hadder is pronounced /ˈhædə(ɹ)/.
What is the plural of hadder?
The plural of hadder is hadders.

Words near hadder in the dictionary

  1. hadd
  2. hadda
  3. Haddam
  4. Hadden
  5. Haddenham
  6. hadder
  7. hadders
  8. haddest
  9. haddie
  10. haddies
  11. Haddington

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