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Shudder vs Shadder - What's the difference?

shudder | shadder |

As nouns the difference between shudder and shadder

is that shudder is a shivering tremor while shadder is eye dialect of lang=en.

As a verb shudder

is to shake nervously, as if from fear.

shudder

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A shivering tremor.
  • A moment of almost pleasurable fear; a frisson.

    • Synonyms

    * (shivering tremor ): jiggle, quake, rumble, quiver * (frisson ): shiver, quiver, tingle, thrill

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shake nervously, as if from fear.
  • To vibrate jerkily.

    • Synonyms

    * (shake nervously ): palpitate, shiver, shake, quake * (vibrate jerkily ): flutter, jiggle, shake, wiggle

    See also

    * judder

    References

    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. }}