Dame vs Dade - What's the difference?
dame | dade |
(British) The .
(dated, informal, slightly, derogatory, US) A woman.
* 1949 , (Oscar Hammerstein II), "(There is Nothing Like a Dame)",
A traditional character in British pantomime, a melodramatic female often played by a man in drag.
(archaic) , woman.
(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
As a noun dame
is the {{l/en|equivalent}} title to {{l/en|Sir}} for a female {{l/en|knight}}.As a verb dade is
to walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.As a proper noun Dade is
{{surname|from=given names}.dame
English
Noun
(en noun)- Dame Edith Sitwell
- There ain't nothin' like a dame'! / Nothin' in the world! / There is nothin' you can name / That is anythin' like a ' dame !
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* * * * Regional English ----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.