yadder

plural yadders

1. dialectalobsoleteA stake used for bracing.

   and at nine o'clock of the same day, each of you shall set your stakes at the brim of the water, each stake a yard from another, and so yadder them with your yadders, and to stake them on each side with strut-stowers, that they stand three tides, without removing by the force of the water;

   1815, Thomas Blount, Josiah Beckwith, Hercules Malebysse Beckwith -, Fragmenta Antiquitatis: Or, Ancient Tenures of Land, page 559

1. Used to represent meaningless or implied verbiage.

   It would be easy, and actually rather lazy of me, to regale you with all that stuff that you probably know already, like the Great Fire, Christopher Wren, the third biggest dome in the world, the Blitz, yadder, yadder, yadder.

   2011, Terry Wood, Kray Twins Ate My Eagle Steak Sandwich

present singular third person yadders · participle present yaddering · participle past yaddered · past yaddered

1. To babble; to talk or vocalize about trivialities.

   He keeps yaddering on about women.

   2005, Murray Pomerance, Savage time, page 119

   4 more examples

   But those of us today, much more heavily dosed with Miami Vice and The Sweeney, are naturally and constantly afraid in a town of any size, afraid of dark, wet streets and car tyres squealing round their corners, afraid of groups of footloose lads, barging down the pavements yaddering bits of popsong, afraid of seedy, smelly heaps of rags and old coats, wheezing and reeking of rotgut cider.

   1988, Fred Inglis, Popular culture and political power, page 152

   Writers are wordy people. They talk, they blab, they yadder.

   2004, Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination, page 261

   Rick looked at her forlornly as she cast her shopping bags to the ground then winced at the wrinkles they had left on her palms, yaddering on without taking a breath or bothering to look up.

   2009, Alison Penton Harper, Housewife in Love

   Daddy and set a MacBook open at Daddy's usual place and dialled him in on iChat so we could see him on iCamera eating an enormous salt beef bagel and drinking coffee while we all yaddered around him and picked at the olives and houmous and flat breads starter.

   2011, Grace Dent, Poor Little Rich Girl

2. To brace or reinforce with a yadder.

   and at nine o'clock of the same day, each of you shall set your stakes at the brim of the water, each stake a yard from another, and so yadder them with your yadders, and to stake them on each side with strut-stowers, that they stand three tides, without removing by the force of the water;

   1815, Thomas Blount, Josiah Beckwith, Hercules Malebysse Beckwith -, Fragmenta Antiquitatis: Or, Ancient Tenures of Land, page 559