gotter

See also: Götter

English

Etymology

From got to.

Verb

gotter

1. Alternative form of gotta
   • 1915, Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie, A Tall Ship‎^[1]:

     "You gotter go," said she.

   • 1913, William Banks, William Adolphus Turnpike‎^[2]:

     My Pa says it's mostly guff, but the pollertishans has gotter feed the people with that kinder guff ev'ry once in a while, he says, they get fat on it, he says.

   • 1911, Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree), The Raid Of The Guerilla‎^[3]:

     "If you folks in the coves want the immunity of non-combatants, by Gawd! you gotter preserve the neutrality of non-combatants!"

   • 1916, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916‎^[4]:

     See here, gal, you just gotter marry me.

   • 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Olympian Nights‎^[5]:

     "We gotter go right by de doh ob Dr. Skilapius."

   • 1894, Various, McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908‎^[6]:

     Excuse me," he murmured absently; "I gotter see a feller——"
     "G'wan down the road!"

   • 1892, Sophie Fox Sea, That Old-Time Child, Roberta‎^[7]:

     But we've gotter die fo' long, honey, en be put erway in the cold groun' fur the wurms ter make meals of; sum of us cheaten' the grave rite now.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Compare obsolete Swedish gotter (alternatively spelled as godter).

Noun

gotter

1. (archaic, dialectal, Spydeberg) sweets (UK), candy (US)

Related terms

• godteri
• smågodt

References

• Jacob Nicolai Wilse (1780). Norſk Ordbog eller Samling af norſke Ord, i ſær de ſom bruges i Egnen af Spydeberg.