spader

See also: späder and Spader

English

Etymology

From spade + -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈspeɪdɚ/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)

Noun

spader (plural spaders)

1. One who, or that which, spades; specifically, a digging machine.

Anagrams

• Padres, Persad, drapes, dreaps, padres, parsed, rasped, repads, spared, spread

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

spader m

1. indefinite plural of spade

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

spader

1. present of spada

Swedish

Noun

spader c

1. spade, spades (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)

   spader fyra, spaderfyra

   four of spades

2. (in "få spader") get very angry (at something), go mental, have a fit

Descendants

• → Finnish: pata
  • → Ingrian: pata

See also

• kortlek

References

• “spader”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “spader”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “spader”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• spader in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• sparde