deeder

noun

Etymology

From deed + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Däider (“perpetrator”), West Frisian dieder (“perpetrator”), Dutch dader (“doer, perpetrator”), German Täter (“perpetrator, culprit”).

  1. inherited from *dʰéh₁tis — “deed, action
  2. inherited from *dēdiz — “deed
  3. inherited from *dādi
  4. inherited from dēd
  5. inherited from dede
  6. suffixed as deeder — “deed + -er

Definitions

  1. One who establishes or executes a legal deed.

    • At the same time appellee rescinded the sale of the land and surrendered the notes to Skains and leased the land to him for the benefit of the joint deeders.
    • It would give the deeders and their heirs an opportunity to reclaim and recover the property, should they desire to do so, and as Crescent Park is an exceptionally valuable piece of property to the City at this time, […]
    • This victimization, however, was an individual result of imbalances in the education and experience of the deeders and their beneficiaries.
  2. One who commits a deed or action

    One who commits a deed or action; a doer or perpetrator.

    • A spongy silence, wet and cold, Hung all about the room, And no one volunteered to lead The deeder to his doom.
    • What was left of Old Tom's once mighty machine, now run with little enthusiasm by his nephew Jim, had taken its fifth straight election beating from the town's "good deeders."
    • She was seventeen; he, the deeder, was someone named Jonah, Oh, Jonah, was older, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-five, fifty-five, something like that.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA