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English
Etymology
From Middle English sodand, alternative form of sodeyn, by reanalysis of the ending as -and, -end, -ent (“present participle suffix”).
Adjective
suddent
- (nonstandard) Alternative form of sudden.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 167:"Oysters and whitebait and a tin of pate, peaches and a pineapple and one of our fowls; well, a woman might like to give herself a nice little dinner once in a while, but not a bottle of wine at four shillings and a three and sixpenny tin of cigarettes, for I never will believe she's took to drink and smoking of a suddent, so own up, Mr. Widgett, it's a little dinner-party on your account."