different between shand vs shend

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

From Middle English shenden, from Old English s?endan (“to put to shame, blame, disgrace”), from Proto-West Germanic *skandijan (“to scold, berate”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kem- (“to cover”). Cognate with Dutch schenden (“to infringe, profane, defile”), German schänden (“defile”). Related to Old English s?and (“infamy, shame, scandal”). More at shand, shame.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd

Verb

shend (third-person singular simple present shends, present participle shending, simple past and past participle shent)

1. (obsolete) To disgrace or put to shame.
   • c 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act 5, Scene II

     Do you hear how we are shent for keeping your greatness back?

2. (archaic) To blame.
3. (archaic) To destroy; to spoil.
4. (archaic) To overpower; to surpass.

Conjugation

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:shend.

Derived terms

• shendship

Anagrams

• Dehns, hends