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kidder

kidder

1 9.9
A person who makes gloves from soft goat leather
  • noun
  • /ˈkɪdər/
  • Archaic
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  • Many customers praised the kidder for his skill in crafting beautiful leather items.

Examples

  • Really, Monk knew what he was doing and made the story funny to make us laugh like that; he was always a kidder.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • The Mad Mike's lot, with its plastic pennants and a man in a wheelchair with his wife or nurse being worked by fat Kidder in the hospital gown and arrow-through-head prosthesis the reps all had to wear on the days.

    Fiction book (1998)

  • The kidder in the market had a wide range of gloves made from soft kid leather.

  • As a kidder, he used to sell handmade leather goods at the local craft fair.

Synonyms

glover
vskidder
6.7

A person who makes or sells gloves

focuses on making or selling gloves and other small items from kid leather

Surface Forms

kidder singular
kidders plural

Morphology

kidder = kid (opaque) = kid + er

The word is built from kid + -er, but the occupational sense 'maker or seller of kid-leather goods' is specialized and not directly recoverable for many learners.

Etymology

Kidder (maker or seller of gloves) comes from kid, meaning 'young goat', because soft 'kid' leather from young goats was used for gloves and small goods. So a kidder was someone who worked with or sold those kid leather items.