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didder, v. Now only dial.|ˈdɪdə(r)|
Forms: 4 diddir, 5 didir, dyder, dedir, -ur, 6 dydder, 7– didder. See also dither.
[Found in the 14th c. related to dadder and dodder; the form in all being frequentative as in totter, flutter, etc.
It is not certain whether they belong to an ablaut stem did, dad, dod, (dud), or whether they are entirely onomatopœic, didder e.g. being a natural imitation of tremulous motion, and dadder, dudder, dodder, variations expressing clumsier or heavier forms of it. Didder is chiefly northern; dither, which appears later, is also midl. and southern, the -ther arising out of -der, as in father, mother, hither, etc.]
intr. To tremble, quake, shake, shiver.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Johannes 264 Cald [frigus]..Þat makis wrechis ful chel to diddir. c1420Avow. Arth. xxv, Dyntus gerut him to dedur. c1440York Myst. xxviii. 2 My flesshe dyderis & daris for doute of my dede. c1460Towneley Myst. (Surtees) 28, I dase and I dedir For ferd of that taylle. c1550Hye Way to Spyttil Hous 118 in Hazl. E.P.P. IV. 28 Boyes, gyrles, and luskysh strong knaues, Dydderyng and dadderyng, leaning on their staues. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xx. 167 Diddering and shivering his Chaps, as Apes use to do. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) 1, To didder (shiver with cold), algeo. 1790Mrs. Wheeler Westmld. Dial. (1821) 34, I quite didderd for fear. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Didder, to shiver, to tremble.
Hence ˈdiddering vbl. n. and ppl. a.
c1440Promp. Parv. 121/1 Dyderynge for colde, frigitus. 1687A. Lovell tr. Bergerac's Com. Hist. i. 18 By his extraordinary chattering and diddering, one half of his Teeth dropt out. 1785Hutton Bran New Wark (E.D.S.) 347 Her knocking knees, and diddering teeth melted my heart. 1869Lonsdale Gloss., Didderin'-girse, quaking grass. |