Widder vs Wilder - What's the difference?
widder | wilder |
*{{quote-book, year=1858, author=Various, title=The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858, chapter=, edition=
, passage=At the sewing- society the matter was fully discussed. Mrs. Greenfield, the doctor's wife, admitted that it would be an excellent match, "jest a child apiece, both on 'em well brought up, used to good company, and all that; but, land's sakes! he, with his mint o' money, a'n't a-goin' to marry a poor widder that ha'n't got nothin' but her husband's pictur' and her boy,--not he!" }}
*{{quote-book, year=1884, author=William O. Stoddard, title=Dab Kinzer, chapter=, edition=
, passage=And then, before the public mind had become sufficiently settled to inquire into the matter, the rumor changed itself into a piece of positive news:-- "The widder Kinzer's moved over into Ham's house, bag and baggage." }}
*{{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles W. Chesnutt, title=The Marrow of Tradition, chapter=, edition=
, passage=She wuz a widder fer de secon' time, an' didn' have no child'en, an' could jes' as well come as not. " }}
*{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Marie Conway Oemler, title=The Purple Heights, chapter=, edition=
, passage=I wouldn't like the missus to be a widder : she's too darn good-lookin'." }}
*{{quote-book, year=1958, author=Robert W. Service, title=Ballads of a Bohemian, chapter=, edition=
, passage=There was five of us lads from the brickyard; 'Enry was gassed at Bapome, Sydney was drowned in a crater, 'Erbert was 'alved by a shell; Joe was the pick o' the posy, might 'a bin sifely at 'ome, Only son of 'is mother, 'er a widder as well. }}
To bewilder, perplex
* 1922 XXIV, lines 29-30
*{{quote-book, year=1913, author=Smyrnaeus Quintus, title=The Fall of Troy, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Now in their hearts those wildered Trojans said That once more they beheld Achilles' self Gigantic in his armour. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1879, author=Emma Lazarus, title=The Poems of Emma Lazarus, chapter=, edition=
, passage=More tender, grateful than she could have dreamed, Fond hands passed pitying over brows and hair, And gentle words borne softly through the air, Calming her weary sense and wildered mind, By welcome, dear communion with her kind. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1854, author=Effie Afton, title=Eventide, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Deep and far within the ether stretched my eyes their anxious gaze, While the swelling thoughts within me grew a wild and wildered maze, Then came floating on the distance, softly to my listening ears, Low, thrilling harmonies of worlds whirling in their bright spheres. }}
(wild)
As a noun widder
is eye dialect of lang=en.As a verb wilder is
to bewilder, perplex.As an adjective wilder is
comparative of wild.As a proper noun Wilder is
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wilder
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(en verb)- Now, to smother noise and light,
- Is stolen abroad the wildering night,
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