Friday, December 11, 2015

Word of the day: didder

The word of the day is didder:

dial Brit

Origin

ME didderen

(http://i.word.com/idictionary/didder)


"Going to sleep in the firelight, young Tisquantum would have stared up at the diddering shadows of the hemp bags and bark boxes hanging from the rafters."

 - Charles Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

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