Thou vs Diddest - What's the difference?

thou | diddest |


As verbs the difference between thou and diddest

is that thou is to address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of familiarity or contempt while diddest is (archaic|with thou).

As a pronoun thou

is .

As a noun thou

is a unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch or thou can be (slang) a thousand, especially a thousand dollars, a thousand pounds sterling, etc.

thou

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) thou, thow, thu, ).

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l), (l)

Pronoun

(wikipedia thou)
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  • * '>citation
    • Usage notes
    * , as in, for example, “Lovest thou me?” Irregular forms include: (art) (of be), (hast) (of have), shalt (of shall), wost (of (wit)), wilt (of (will)), and (m) (of (m)).
    Derived terms
    * th'art * thou'lt * thou'rt * thou'st
    See also
    (English personal pronouns)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To address (a person) using the pronoun thou, especially as an expression of familiarity or contempt.
  • * 1888 , Rudyard Kipling, ‘On the City Wall’, In Black and White , Folio Society 2005, p. 443:
    • "One service more, Sahib , since thou hast come so opportunely," said Lalun. "Wilt thou" – it is very nice to be thou-ed by Lalun – "take this old man across the City [...] to the Kumharsen Gate?"
    I thou thee, thou traitor! (Edward Coke to Walter Raleigh)
    Avaunt, caitiff, dost thou thou me! I am come of good kin, I tell thee!'' (The morality play ''Hickscorner , ca. 1530)
    If thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss''[...] (''Twelfth Night'' 3.2, Sir Toby Belch to Sir Andrew, egging him on to pick a fight with another, where one would expect one knight courteously to say to another, "If ''you thou him...").
    Don't thou''' them as '''thous thee! (Yorkshire English admonition to overly familiar children)
  • To use the word thou.

    • Antonyms

    *

    Etymology 2

    Shortened from thousandth.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit of length equal to one-thousandth of an inch.
    • Synonyms
    * mil (US)

    Etymology 3

    Shortened from thousand.

    Noun

    (thou)
  • (slang) A thousand, especially a thousand dollars, a thousand pounds sterling, etc.

    • Statistics

    * English heteronyms English personal pronouns English terms with multiple etymologies

    diddest

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic, with thou)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1566, author=William Adlington, title=The Golden Asse, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Couldest not thou (that so often in his life time diddest spurne and kicke him) defend him now at the point of death by the like meane?}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1592, author=R.D., title=Hypnerotomachia, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Poliphilus'', be of good comfort, and pluck vp a good heart, and tell me how thou commest hither, and by what meanes, and how thou diddest''' escape that mortall and horrible Dragon? and how thou ' diddest finde away out of that odious and blinde darkenes, I haue beene tould of it: But I maruell me not a little, because few or none dare aduenture that waye.}}

    Synonyms

    * didst