gotter

From got to.

gotter

1. Alternative form of gotta.
   • 1915, Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie, A Tall Ship‎^[1]:

     "You gotter go," said she.

   • 1913, William Banks, William Adolphus Turnpike‎^[2]:

     My Pa says it's mostly guff, but the pollertishans has gotter feed the people with that kinder guff ev'ry once in a while, he says, they get fat on it, he says.

   • 1911, Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree), The Raid Of The Guerilla^[sic]‎^[3]:

     "If you folks in the coves want the immunity of non-combatants, by Gawd! you gotter preserve the neutrality of non-combatants!"

   • 1916, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916‎^[4]:

     See here, gal, you just gotter marry me.

   • 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Olympian Nights‎^[5]:

     "We gotter go right by de doh ob Dr. Skilapius."

   • 1894, Various, McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908‎^[6]:

     Excuse me," he murmured absently; "I gotter see a feller——"
     "G'wan down the road!"

   • 1892, Sophie Fox Sea, That Old-Time Child, Roberta‎^[7]:

     But we've gotter die fo' long, honey, en be put erway in the cold groun' fur the wurms ter make meals of; sum of us cheaten' the grave rite now.

Compare obsolete Swedish gotter (alternatively spelled as godter).

gotter

1. (archaic, dialectal, Spydeberg) sweets (UK), candy (US)

• godteri
• smågodt

• J.N. Wilse (1780) Norſk Ordbog eller Samling af norſke Ord, i ſær de ſom bruges i Egnen af Spydeberg (in Danish)