yed

verb

Etymology

From Middle English ȝedden, ȝeddien, from Old English ġieddian (“to speak formally, discuss, speak with alliteration, recite, sing”), from ġiedd (“song, poem, saying, proverb, riddle, speech, story, tale, narrative, account, reckoning, reason”).

  1. inherited from eardian
  2. inherited from eardien
  3. inherited from eorþien

Definitions

  1. To speak

    To speak; sing.

  2. To magnify greatly in narration

    To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.

  3. To contend

    To contend; wrangle.

  4. + 6 more definitions
    1. A saying.

    2. A falsehood

      A falsehood; leasing.

    3. To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole

      To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.

    4. To be associated with a place or locality.

    5. A burrow

      A burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground.

    6. A self-reference to the editor of a periodical

      A self-reference to the editor of a periodical; a substitution for the editor's name or signature.

      • All of which sprang (crawled?) from the fertile skull of yed, no doubt it is something in my Radius.

The neighborhood

Derived

yedding, yedder

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA