gotter
See also: Götter
English
Etymology
From got to
Verb
gotter
- Alternative form of gotta
- 1915, Sir Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie, A Tall Ship:
- "You gotter go," said she.
- 1913, William Banks, William Adolphus Turnpike:
- My Pa says it's mostly guff, but the pollertishans has gotter feed the people with that kinder guff ev'ry once in a while, he says, they get fat on it, he says.
- 1911, Charles Egbert Craddock (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree), The Raid Of The Guerilla:
- "If you folks in the coves want the immunity of non-combatants, by Gawd! you gotter preserve the neutrality of non-combatants!"
- 1916, Various, Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 29, 1916:
- See here, gal, you just gotter marry me.
- 1902, John Kendrick Bangs, Olympian Nights:
- "We gotter go right by de doh ob Dr. Skilapius."
- 1894, Various, McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908:
- Excuse me," he murmured absently; "I gotter see a feller——"
"G'wan down the road!"
- 1892, Sophie Fox Sea, That Old-Time Child, Roberta:
- But we've gotter die fo' long, honey, en be put erway in the cold groun' fur the wurms ter make meals of; sum of us cheaten' the grave rite now.
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