deeder

English

Etymology

From deed +‎ -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Däider (“perpetrator”), West Frisian dieder (“perpetrator”), Dutch dader (“doer, perpetrator”), German Täter (“perpetrator, culprit”).

Noun

deeder (plural deeders)

1. (law) One who establishes or executes a legal deed.
   • 1892, Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of Texas:

     At the same time appellee rescinded the sale of the land and surrendered the notes to Skains and leased the land to him for the benefit of the joint deeders.

   • 1912, Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Schenectady:

     It would give the deeders and their heirs an opportunity to reclaim and recover the property, should they desire to do so, and as Crescent Park is an exceptionally valuable piece of property to the City at this time, […]

2. (slang or nonstandard) One who commits a deed or action; a doer or perpetrator.
   • 1914, Steam Machinery: A Magazine of Men, Machinery and Methods:

     A spongy silence, wet and cold,
     Hung all about the room,
     And no one volunteered to lead
     The deeder to his doom.

   • 1948, Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, Time, volume 51, page 25:

     What was left of Old Tom's once mighty machine, now run with little enthusiasm by his nephew Jim, had taken its fifth straight election beating from the town's "good deeders."

   • 2018, Jesse Miller, Unwrap Your Candy:

     She was seventeen; he, the deeder, was someone named Jonah, Oh, Jonah, was older, twenty-four, twenty-five, thirty-five, fifty-five, something like that.

   • 2019, Mary Rose Kamken, Dreamfinder - Through a Dreamfinder's Eyes, page 42:

     But deeds were done, and none are dead
     They live on, longer than the deeders
     In my mind and now the readers […]