shadder

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Noun

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shadder (plural shadders)

  1. Pronunciation spelling of shadow.
    • 1872, John Hay et al., Not Pretty, But Precious[1]:
      Nex' room my boy lies in the shadder an' dark.
    • 1876, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete[2]:
      We spotted the shadder to a dot."
    • 1904, Marietta Holley, Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition[3]:
      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.
    • 1906, Henry Wallace Phillips, Mr. Scraggs[4]:
      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.
    • 1916, Francis Lynde, The Taming of Red Butte Western[5]:
      "If I didn't know better, I'd swear that was Hallock again--or Hallock's shadder follerin' him at a good long range!"
    • 1966, Ambrose Bierce, The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 8[6]:
      But ole Sim Salper is never a-goin' to fret hisself to a shadder about it.

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