different between swad vs shad

English

Alternative forms

• swod

Etymology

Related to swaddle?

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sw?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

swad (plural swads)

1. A bunch, clump, mass
2. (obsolete, slang) A crowd; a group of people.
3. (obsolete) A boor, lout.
   • 1591, unknown author, The Troublesome Reign of King John, scene 2

     Sham’st thou not coistrel, loathsome dunghill swad.

   • 1633, Ben Jonson, A Tale of a Tub

     There was one busy fellow was their leader, / A blunt, squat swad, but lower than yourself.

   • 1588, Robert Greene, Perimedes

     Country swains, and silly swads.

4. (mining) A thin layer of refuse at the bottom of a seam.
5. (Britain, dialect, obsolete, Northern) A cod, or pod, as of beans or peas.
   • 1656, Thomas Blount, Glossographia

     Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell — thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow.

References

Synonyms

• (bunch, clump): bunch, clump, mass

References

• WordNet 3.0 (2006, Princeton University); “swad” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

Anagrams

• AWDS, AWDs, DAWs, Daws, WASD, daws, wads

Middle English

Noun

swad

1. Alternative form of swathe (“swath”)

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