woulder

English

Etymology

From would +‎ -er.

Noun

woulder (plural woulders)

1. (rare) Someone who would.
   • 1583, Robert Harrison, “A Little Treatise vppon the firste Verse of the 122. Psalm”, as printed in Leland Henry Carlson and Albert Peel (editors, 1953), Elizabethan Non-Conformist Texts, Volume II: The Writings of Robert Harrison and Robert Browne, Routledge (2003), →ISBN, pages 91–92:

     It is not ynough to be wishers and woulders, as manie be at this daye counted religious and fauourers of gouernement, because they can saye: O wee muste praye, we me must pray: thereby satisfying them selues and others, being not a little gladd, that they may buye it so cheape, to sitt at their ease, and folowe the worlde.

   • a. 1636, Samuel Ward, “Balm from Gilead to Recover Conscience”, in J. C. Ryle (editor), Sermons and Treatises, James Nichol (publisher, 1862), page 103:

     […] ; but then it must be meant, not every languishing and lazy flash of every wisher and woulder, but of a willer; and […]

   • 1989, Mr. Wall, transcribed in FSLIC Assistance Programs: Hearing Before the Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs, House of Representatives, One Hundred First Congress, First Session, January 10, 1989,^[1] page 48:

     If we could deal with woulders and coulders, we would have a lot here.

Verb

woulder

1. Alternative spelling of woulda