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Definition of Nodders
1. nodder [n] - See also: nodder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nodders
Literary usage of Nodders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and by Washington Irving (1849)
"... plainly meaning that they were great nodders or dozers books — from them did
descend the writer of this history. Such was the legion of sturdy ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1902)
"We have, it seems, a great Turk in poetry, who can never bear a brother on the
throne ; and has his mutes too, a set of nodders winkers, and whisperers, ..."
3. The Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till by John Campbell Campbell (1849)
"Even the furred nodders on the bench have benefited by listening to the orderly
and nervous discourses of these young Scottish pleaders. ..."
4. Works by Washington Irving (1893)
"... to nod, and Boeken, books : plainly meaning that they were great nodders or
dozers over books. From them did descend the writer of this history. ..."
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