Jird vs Gird - What's the difference?
jird | gird |
Any of various rodents of the genera Meriones'', ''Sekeetamys'', ''Brachiones'', and sometimes ''Pachyuromys , an agricultural pest.
To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
To prepare oneself for an action.
A sarcastic remark.
* Shakespeare
A stroke with a rod or switch.
A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
* Tillotson
To jeer at.
* Shakespeare
To jeer.
* Shakespeare
As nouns the difference between jird and gird
is that jird is any of various rodents of the genera meriones'', ''sekeetamys'', ''brachiones'', and sometimes ''pachyuromys , an agricultural pest while gird is a sarcastic remark.As a verb gird is
to bind with a flexible rope or cord or gird can be to jeer at.jird
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(en noun) (wikipedia jird)gird
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Etymology 1
(etyl) .Verb
- The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
- The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.
- Our home is girt by sea... -
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- I thank thee for that gird , good Tranio.
- Conscience is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.
Verb
(en verb)- Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
- Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.