Lexicographical Neighbors of Didders
Literary usage of Didders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d by United States Congress. House (1872)
"didders' names. Sum per annum. James Gorman $1.999, three times a week. 1500.
HS Brooks & Co 1675, three times a week. Mary E. Green 1300. ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1896)
"(2) To tremble or shake generally, as ' a bog didders' [Johnson]. Diddle. To waste
time in the merest trifling. ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"Seemingly, the Managers of the Exhibition let out the stands in "the Cheap
Fish-Market" to the highest didders. Be this as it may, a very small reduction is ..."
4. The History of the Reformation of the Church of England by Gilbert Burnet (1829)
"The grounds on which the king didders. this were, that his former marriage being
of itself null, there was no need of a declarative sentence, after so many ..."
5. The Natural History of Selborne: With Observations on Various Parts of by Gilbert White (1853)
"One of the didders, or trenches, down the middle of the Hanger, close covered
over with lofty beeches near a century old, is still called ..."
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