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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.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Compare obsolete Swedish gotter (alternatively spelled as godter).
Noun
gotter
- (archaic, dialectal, Spydeberg) sweets (UK), candy (US)
References
- J.N. Wilse (1780) Norſk Ordbog eller Samling af norſke Ord, i ſær de ſom bruges i Egnen af Spydeberg (in Danish)