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Judge vs Jedge - What's the difference?

judge | jedge |

As nouns the difference between judge and jedge

is that judge is (public judicial official)A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice while jedge is eye dialect of judge.

As verbs the difference between judge and jedge

is that judge is to sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on while jedge is eye dialect of judge.

As a proper noun Judge

is {{surname}.

judge

English

Alternative forms

* judg (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (senseid)A public official whose duty it is to administer the law, especially by presiding over trials and rendering judgments; a justice.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • The parts of a judge in hearing are four: to direct the evidence; to moderate length, repetition, or impertinency of speech; to recapitulate, select, and collate the material points of that which hath been said; and to give the rule or sentence.
  • A person who decides the fate of someone or something that has been called into question.
  • A person officiating at a sports or similar event.
    • At a boxing match the decision of the judges is final.
  • A person whose opinion on a subject is respected.
    • He is a good judge of wine.
  • * Dryden
    • A man who is no judge' of law may be a good ' judge of poetry, or eloquence, or of the merits of a painting.

    Synonyms

    * (one who judges or dispenses judgement) deemer, deemster * (official of the court) justice, sheriff

    Derived terms

    * * * * * *

    Verb

    (judg)
  • To sit in judgment on; to pass sentence on.
    • A higher power will judge you after you are dead.
  • To sit in judgment, to act as judge.
    • Justices in this country judge without appeal.
  • To form an opinion on.
    • I judge a man’s character by the cut of his suit.
  • To arbitrate; to pass opinion on something, especially to settle a dispute etc.
    • We cannot both be right: you must judge between us.
  • To have as an opinion; to consider, suppose.
    • I judge it safe to leave the house once again.
  • To form an opinion; to infer.
    • I judge from the sky that it might rain later.
  • * 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VIII
    • THE sun was up so high when I waked that I judged it was after eight o'clock.
  • (intransitive) To criticize or label another person or thing.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * * *

    Related terms

    * abjudge * abjudicate * adjudicate * judgment * judicator * judicial * judiciary * prejudice * magistrate

    jedge

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • *{{quote-book, year=1872, author=(Edward Eggleston), title= The End Of The World
    • , passage=But he a'n't no singin'-master—not of I'm any jedge of turnips.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1882, author=(Louisa May Alcott), title= Kitty's Class Day And Other Stories
    • , passage="I ain't no great of a jedge about anything but nat'ralness of books, and it really does seem as if some of your men and women was dreadful uncomfortable creaters.}}
  • *1900 , , Ch.I:
  • *:"De ole jedge has be'n a little onreg'lar sence de wah, suh"
  • *
  • *:"Heap of it, sir," replied the overseer, taking off his cap. "It was that fine yaller lady there that made most of it. She's the one that's a-fomint''in' trouble right along. She's a quiet lookin' gal, but she ain't. It's all right what the jedge says to me, but I'm goin' to have a little settle''ment with this fine lady myself, this time."

    • Verb

    (jedg)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=Irvin S. Cobb, title=The Escape of Mr. Trimm, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=There ain't nobody reported missin' in this county as we know of, either; so I jedge a verdict of a unknown person dead from unknown causes would be about the correct thing. }}