badder
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Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbædə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): [ˈbæɾɚ]
- Homophone: batter (in accents with flapping)
- Rhymes: -ædə(ɹ)
Adjective edit
badder
- (nonstandard or obsolete) comparative form of bad: more bad.
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The standard comparative is worse.
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badder
- (rare) more bad, badder, worse
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Squyers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- They demen gladly to the badder ende.
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