jadder

Borrowed from Dutch Low Saxon [Term?]. Doublet of uier.

In the past sometimes used in standard Dutch writing, particularly following its use by the seventeenth-century playwright Joost van den Vondel. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• IPA^(key): /ˈjɑdər/
• Hyphenation: jad‧der

jadder n or m (plural jadders, diminutive jaddertje n)

1. (dialectal) Synonym of uier (“udder”)
   • 1805, Joannes le Franq van Berkhey, Natuurlijke historie van het rundvee in Holland, volume 2, page 124:

     Het uur, de jadders of elders, de melkborsten en prammen der Koeijen vereiſchen hier een nadere beſchrijving.

     The udder, the jadders or elders, the milking breasts and tits of cows are here in need of a further description.

• P. Weiland (1802) “jadder”, in Nederduitsch taalkundig woordenboek (E-H), Amsterdam: Johannes Allart, page 337