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English

Etymology

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Probably from Arabic ?????? (jura?, “a desert rodent with black tail tips, like many species in the genus Meriones”) in a vulgar pronunciation.

Noun

jird (plural jirds)

1. Any of various agricultural pest rodents of genus Meriones and rodents of certain species in the genera Sekeetamys, Brachiones, and sometimes Pachyuromys.

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See also

• gerbil
• jerboa

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??d/

Etymology 1

From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around, to put a girdle around”), from Proto-Germanic *gurdijan? (“to gird”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?erd?-. Cognate with West Frisian gurdzje, girdzje, Dutch gorden, German gürten, Swedish gjorda, Icelandic gyrða, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie together by weaving, to bind”).

Verb

gird (third-person singular simple present girds, present participle girding, simple past and past participle girded or girt)

1. (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.

   The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.

2. (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.

   The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.

   Our home is girt by sea... - Advance Australia Fair
3. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself for an action.

Derived terms

• begird
• undergird
• ungird

Related terms

• girder
• girdle
• gird up one’s loins
• girt

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Etymology 2

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Noun

gird (plural girds)

1. A sarcastic remark.

2. A stroke with a rod or switch.
3. A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
   • a. 1694, John Tillotson, The Folly of Scoffing at Religion

     Conscience […] is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.

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Verb

gird (third-person singular simple present girds, present participle girding, simple past and past participle girded)

1. (transitive) To jeer at.

2. (intransitive) To jeer.

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Anagrams

• GRID, grid

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Alternative forms

• g?rd

Adjective

gird

1. big