Noun: fother
| Singular | fother |
| Plural | fothers |
Sample Sentences
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Four fother of clod lime, and fifteen fothers of good manure, on each acre. [1774-75, Act 14 Geo. III in Brand, Newcastle (1789) I, page 652]
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20 fothers of additional thickness in clay were thrown in. [1813, “Misc.”, in Ann. Reg., 507/2:]
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Where the brass hez a' cum fra nebody can tell, / Some says yen thing and some says another - / But whe ever lent Grainger't aw knaw very well, / That they mun have at least had a fother. [1840, Tyne songster, The Tyne songster, a choice selection of songs in the Newcastle dialect, page 211:]
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Now measured by the old hundred, that is, 108 lbs. the charrus contains nearly 19½ hundreds, that is it corresponds to the fodder, or fother, of modern times. [1866, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, volume 1, page 168:]
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He ripp'd the womb up of his mother, / Dame Tellus, 'cause he wanted fother, / And provender, wherewith to feed / Himself and his less cruel steed. [1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part 1, canto 2:]
Nouns inflected like fother
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English fother, fothir, from Old Norse fóðr (cognate to Old English fōdor), from Proto-Germanic *fōdrą (compare Dutch voer (“pasture, fodder”), German Futter (“feed”), Swedish foder). Doublet of fodder and foeder. More at food. See: Middle English Nouns '
fother', Old Norse Nouns '
fóðr', Old English Nouns '
fōdor', Dutch Nouns '
voer', German Nouns '
Futter', Swedish Nouns '
foder'.
Verbs referencing "fother"
Dutch Nouns
foeder.