ZWODDERADJ.
drowsy and dull ...1847 Eng. dial. NOUN a drowsy, stupid state of body or mind ...Bk1825 Eng. dial. (Somersetshire) ETYMOLOGY • ? Anglo-Saxon swodrian to get drowsy, to fall asleep • ? Middle Dutch has swadderen to be weary with drinking or to stagger with drunkenness • ? Jennings in 'Observations on Some of the Dialects in the West..." suggests it is derived from sudor a sweat FIRST DOCUMENTED USE 1825 - Zwodder. a drowsy and stupid state of body or mind From: Observations on Some of the Dialects in the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, etc. By: James Jennings, 1825 EXAMPLE "...We simmed to skeer droo Sparkvurd like A ship out on the water; Thik putt did sim to eche along As mid be in a zwodder." From: Somerset Folk Series, 1922 SOURCES • A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, James Halliwell, 1847 • Observations on Some of the Dialects in the West of England, particularly Somersetshire, etc., James Jennings, 1825 • The English Dialect Dictionary, Joseph Wright, 1898-1905
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