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woulder

woulder noun: someone who would. Also the alternative spelling of woulda.

Noun

woulder (plural woulders)

  1. (rare) Someone who would.
    • It is not ynough to be wishers and woulders, as manie be at this daye counted religious and fauourers of gouernement, because they can saye: O wee muste praye, we me must pray: thereby satisfying them selues and others, being not a little gladd, that they may buye it so cheape, to sitt at their...1583, Robert Harrison, “A Little Treatise vppon the firste Verse of the 122. Psalm”, as printed in Leland Henry Carlson and Albert Peel (editors, 1953), Elizabethan Non-Conformist Texts, Volume II...
    • […] ; but then it must be meant, not every languishing and lazy flash of every wisher and woulder, but of a willer; and […]a. 1636, Samuel Ward, “Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience”, in J. C. Ryle (editor), Sermons and Treatises, James Nichol (publisher, 1862), page 103

Also used as

woulder is also the alternative spelling of woulda.

Forms of woulder

pluralwoulders

Origin of woulder

From would + -er.

Questions about woulder

What does woulder mean?
Woulder means someone who would.
What part of speech is woulder?
Woulder is a noun.
What is the plural of woulder?
The plural of woulder is woulders.

Words near woulder in the dictionary

  1. woulda
  2. woulda, coulda, shoulda
  3. woulda, coulda, shouldas
  4. woulda, shoulda, coulda
  5. woulde
  6. woulder
  7. woulders
  8. wouldest
  9. woulding
  10. wouldingness
  11. wouldings

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