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wedder en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

From wed + -er.

Meanings

1. A person who marries.
   • The wedder of the heiress! is his lot all bliss when he has made the grand coup, and married for money after a long career of debts, difiiculties, and dishonoured bills? I think not; […] 1864, St. James' Magazine and United Empire Review, volume 9, page 239:

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spouse

wedder en · NOUN · etymology 2

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1. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete, regional) Alternative form of wether (“castrated buck goat or ram”).
   alt of wether
   • They then retreated to an out-house, took a wedder from the fold, killed it, and supped off the carcass, for which (it is said) they offered payment to the proprietor. 1829, Rob Roy, Walter Scott, Introduction to the 1829 edition:
   • 1840, Patrick Leslie, Diary entry for 21 February, 1840, cited in Henry Stuart Russell, The Genesis of Queensland, Sydney: Turner & Henderson, 1888, Chapter 7, Our stock consisted of four thousand breeding ewes in lamb, one hundred ewe hoggets, one thousand wedder hoggets, one hundred rams, and five hundred wedders, three and four years old.

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