different between braid vs befrogged

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English braiden, breiden, bræiden, from Old English bre?dan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdan? (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?r??-, *b?r??- (“to shine, shimmer”).

Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).

Alternative forms

• brayde, breyde, broid (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?e?d/
• Homophone: brayed
• Rhymes: -e?d

Verb

braid (third-person singular simple present braids, present participle braiding, simple past and past participle braided)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
2. (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
3. (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
4. To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
5. (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.

Derived terms

• umbraid
• upbraid

Translations

Noun

braid (plural braids)

1. (obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. [11^th-17^thc.]
2. A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16^thc.]
3. A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together
4. A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
5. A fancy; freak; caprice.

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Translations

Further reading

• braid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• braid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Braids on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Etymology 2

Adjective

braid (comparative more braid, superlative most braid)

1. (obsolete) Deceitful.

Anagrams

• Baird, bidar, rabid

Gothic

Romanization

braid

1. Romanization of ????????????????????

Irish

Noun

braid f

1. (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of brad

Mutation

Middle English

Noun

braid

1. Alternative form of breid

English

Etymology

be- +? frog +? -ed

Adjective

befrogged (comparative more befrogged, superlative most befrogged)

1. Adorned with ornamental braid fasteners.
   • 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four (chapter 4)

     Our new acquaintance very deliberately coiled up the tube of his hookah and produced from behind a curtain a very long befrogged topcoat with astrakhan collar and cuffs.