Dade vs Bade - What's the difference?
dade | bade |
(obsolete) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
* Drayton
(obsolete) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
* Drayton
(bid)
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=22
As a numeral dade
is one.As a conjunction bade is
both.As a noun bade is
.dade
English
Verb
(dad)- No sooner taught to dade , but from their mother trip.
- Little children when they learn to go / By painful mothers daded to and fro.
bade
English
Verb
(head)citation, passage=Pancho, the major-domo, came up to say that Colonel Morales was waiting below. Appleby bade him bring out cigars and wine, and rose from his seat when Morales came in.}}
Usage notes
The inflected form bade', like the form bidden, is archaic. It remains in marginal use, particularly regarding greetings as in “'''bade farewell”, but uninflected bid is significantly more common.“Bid, bade, bidden”, ''Grammarist