different between woulder vs moulder

English

Etymology

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

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??ld?/

Alternative forms

• (US) molder

Etymology 1

Verbal use of mould

Verb

moulder (third-person singular simple present moulders, present participle mouldering, simple past and past participle mouldered)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To decay or rot.
   • 1772–1782, William Mason, The English Garden:

     [Time's] gradual touch / Has moulder'd into beauty many a tower.

   • c. 1855, John Brown’s Body:

     John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave, but his soul goes marching on!

Related terms

mouldery

Etymology 2

mould +? -er

Noun

moulder (plural moulders)

1. A person who moulds dough into loaves.
2. Anyone who moulds or shapes things.
3. A machine used for moulding.

Anagrams

• R-module, remould