different between shand vs shad

English

Alternative forms

• shond

Etymology

From Middle English shande, schande, schonde, from Old English s?eand, s?and (“shame, disgrace, infamy, ignominy, confusion; a shameful, infamous, or abominable thing; that which brings disgrace, scandal, disgraceful thing; a bad or infamous person, a buffoon, charlatan, wretch, imposter, recreant”), from Proto-Germanic *skand? (“shame, disgrace”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)?em- (“to cover, hide, conceal”). Cognate with Dutch schande (“shame, disgrace, reproach, dishonour, scandal”), German Schande (“shame, disgrace, ignominity, dishonour”). Related to shame, shend.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ænd

Noun

shand (uncountable)

1. Shame; scandal; disgrace.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Base coin.

Adjective

shand (comparative more shand, superlative most shand)

1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Worthless.

Anagrams

• Dahns, Danhs, hands, shDNA

English

Etymology

Old English sceadd, either from Celtic (see Irish Gaelic sgadan (“herring”), Welsh ysgadan) or from Scandinavian (see dialectal Norwegian skadd (“small whitefish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?æd/
• Rhymes: -æd

Noun

shad (plural shad or shads)

1. Any one of several species of food fishes that make up the genus Alosa in the family Clupeidae, to which the herrings also belong; river herring.
   • 2003, Edith Grossman, translator, Gabriel García Márquez, Living to Tell the Tale, Chapter 1

     Each river had its village and its iron bridge that the train crossed with a blast of its whistle, and the girls bathing in the icy water leaped like shad as it passed, unsettling travelers with their fleeting breasts.

2. (South Africa) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• ADHs, Dash, SAHD, Sadh, dahs, dash

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English shoed, past participle of shon.

Adjective

shad

1. shod

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN