▪ I. todder Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈtɒdə(r))
Also tother.
[Origin obscure.]
Spawn of a frog or toad; slimy gelatinous matter.
| 1604 Drayton Moyses ii. 116 The soile..Lies now a ley⁓stall as a common ditch, Where in their Todder loathly Paddocks breed. 1881 Leicester. Gloss., Tother,..var. pron. of ‘todder’, slime; spawn. |
▪ II. todder
variant of totter: cf. dodder v. 3.
| 1871 Daily News 11 Sept., Enter..next a toddering old man—the feeble father. |