hadder

From Middle English hader, hather, heddre, from Old English *hǣddre, a variant of hǣþ (“heath; heather”). More at heath, heather.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhædə(ɹ)/

hadder (countable and uncountable, plural hadders)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) heather or heath
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     they lay upon the ground covered with skins, as the Redshanks do on Hadder

• “hadder”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Contracted form

hadder

1. Eye dialect spelling of had to.

• ADHDer

hadder

1. contraction of hadde dāer