foulder

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/ˈfoʊldə(ɹ)/

verb

To flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.

OriginMiddle English fouldre ← Old French foudre ← Latin fulgur →
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Meanings

verbfoulder (third-person singular simple present foulders, present participle fouldering, simple past and past participle fouldered)

present singular third person foulders · participle present fouldering · participle past fouldered · past fouldered · alternative archaic fouldre

  1. obsoleteTo flash like lightning; to lighten; to gleam; to thunder.

    flames of fouldring heat

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 20

Origin

  1. Latinfulgur
  2. Old Frenchfoudre
  3. Middle Englishfouldre“lightning”
  4. Englishfoulder

From Middle English fouldre (“lightning”), from Old French foudre also fouldre (modern French foudre), from Latin fulgur. See fulgor.

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APA

foulder. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foulder

MLA

“foulder.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foulder. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foulder,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foulder.

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