different between zed vs yed

English

Etymology

From Middle English zed, zedde, zede, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ???? (zêta). Letter had rare nonstandard usage in Old English, such as in bezt, where it represented "ts" (compare the German pronunciation of Z). For the sleep sense, see zzz. The zombie sense comes from the initial letter. Doublet of zeta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?d/
• Rhymes: -?d

Noun

zed (plural zeds) (chiefly Commonwealth)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter Z.
2. (in combination) Something Z-shaped.

3. (colloquial, usually in the plural) Sleep.

4. (slang) A zombie.

   A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.

Synonyms

• (all): zee (US, Newfoundland)
• (letter): izzard (Scotland)
• (sleep): zee (Canada) (more common)

Translations

See also

• (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed

Verb

zed (third-person singular simple present zeds, present participle zedding, simple past and past participle zedded) (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, South Africa)

1. (intransitive, informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
2. (intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
   • 1931, Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin

     We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...

See also

• zeta

Yola

Adjective

zed

1. stewed, sodden

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

English

Alternative forms

• yedd

Etymology 1

From Middle English ?edden, ?eddien, from Old English ?ieddian (“to speak formally, discuss, speak with alliteration, recite, sing”), from ?iedd (“song, poem, saying, proverb, riddle, speech, story, tale, narrative, account, reckoning, reason”).

Verb

yed (third-person singular simple present yeds, present participle yedding, simple past and past participle yedded)

1. (intransitive, archaic) To speak; sing.
2. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.
3. (intransitive, Britain dialectal) To contend; wrangle.

Derived terms

• yedding

Etymology 2

From Middle English ?ed, from Old English ?iedd (“song, poem, saying, proverb, riddle, speech, story, tale, narrative, account, reckoning, reason”).

Noun

yed (plural yeds)

1. (archaic) A saying.
2. (Britain dialectal) A falsehood; leasing.

Etymology 3

From Middle English eorþien (“to bury, dig”), from eorþe (“earth”). Influenced or conflated with Middle English eardien (“to dwell, inhabit”), from Old English eardian (“to live, dwell, be inhabitant, occupy”). More at earth.

Alternative forms

• yerd, eard

Verb

yed (third-person singular simple present yeds, present participle yedding, simple past and past participle yedded)

1. (Britain dialectal) To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.
2. (Britain dialectal) To be associated with a place or locality. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Derived terms

• yedder
• yedding

Noun

yed (plural yeds)

1. (Britain dialectal) A burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground.

Etymology 4

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Noun

yed (plural yeds)

1. (dated, fandom slang) A self-reference to the editor of a periodical; a substitution for the editor's name or signature.

Anagrams

• Dey, Dye, d'ye, dey, dye

Volapük

Conjunction

yed

1. (Volapük Rigik) yet, nevertheless, but, however