Noun: udder
| Singular | udder |
| Plural | udders |
Sample Sentences
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squeeze the udder to get milk
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The udder of the hyena, tied on the left arm, enticed the affection of any desired woman. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 60:]
Nouns inflected like udder
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
1. From Middle English udder, uddyr (also as uther, iddyr), from Old English ūder (“udder; breast”), from Proto-Germanic *ūdarą, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówHdʰr̥ (“udder”).
2. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Jadder (“udder”), Dutch uier (“udder”), German Euter (“udder”), Swedish juver (“udder”), Icelandic júgur (“udder”), Vedic Sanskrit ऊधर् (ū́dhar), Ancient Greek οὖθαρ (oûthar), Latin ūber. See: Middle English Nouns '
udder', Old English Nouns '
ūder', Dutch Nouns '
uier', German Nouns '
Euter', Swedish Nouns '
juver', Icelandic Nouns '
júgur', Ancient Greek Nouns '
οὖθαρ', Latin Nouns '
ūber'.
Verbs referencing "udder"
Dutch Nouns
uier, Ancient Greek Nouns
οὖθαρ, Latin Nouns
uber.