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Shadier vs Shadder - What's the difference?

shadier | shadder |

As an adjective shadier

is (shady).

As a noun shadder is

.

shadier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (shady)

    • Anagrams

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    shady

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Abounding in shades.
  • Causing shade.
  • * Bible, Job xl. 22
    • The shady trees cover him with their shadow.
  • Overspread with shade; sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter.
  • (informal) Not trustworthy; disreputable.
    • He is a shady character.
  • * 2009 : Stuart Heritage], [http://www.hecklerspray.com/ Hecklerspray] , Friday the 22nd of May in 2009 at 1 o’clock p.m., “[http://www.hecklerspray.com/jon-kate-latest-people-you-dont-know-do-crap-you-dont-care-about/200934378.php Jon & Kate Latest: People You Don’t Know Do Crap You Don’t Care About”
    • Jon & Kate Plus 8'' is a show based on two facts: 1)''' Jon and Kate Gosselin have eight children, and '''2)''' the word ‘Kate’ rhymes with the word ‘eight’. One suspects that if Kate were ever to have another child, a ' shady network executive would urge her to put it in a binbag with a brick and drop it down a well. But this is just a horrifying tangent.
  • (UK, slang) Mean, cruel.
    • ''Don't be shady , give us a go.
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    • Synonyms

    * (not trustworthy) corrupt, dodgy, dubious, equivocal, seedy, sketchy, suspicious

    shadder

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1872, author=John Hay, et al., title=Not Pretty, But Precious, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Nex' room my boy lies in the shadder an' dark. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1876, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), title=The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We spotted the shadder to a dot." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1904, author=Marietta Holley, title=Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And I see with joy that the shadder on my pardner's face lifted quite a little durin' our stay there, but of course this belated us and we didn't git to St. Louis till Saturday late in the afternoon. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1906, author=Henry Wallace Phillips, title=Mr. Scraggs, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=And yet that Chink had the innocentest face in Utah; he might ha' stood for a picture of Adam before Eve cast a shadder on his manly brow. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Francis Lynde, title=The Taming of Red Butte Western, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="If I didn't know better, I'd swear that was Hallock again--or Hallock's shadder follerin' him at a good long range!" }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1966, author=Ambrose Bierce, title=The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=But ole Sim Salper is never a-goin' to fret hisself to a shadder about it. }}