spatterdashern.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
= spatterdash n.
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1684 G. Meriton York-shire Dial. (E.D.S.) 373 Wife, what's become of my Spatterdashers?
1711 London Gaz. No. 4809/4 A pair of Spatterdashers.
1767 Connoisseur No. 79 ⁋2 (ed. 5) III. 60 He wore upon his legs something that resembled spatterdashers [1755–61 spatterdashes].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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