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Heed vs Keed - What's the difference?

heed | keed |

As nouns the difference between heed and keed

is that heed is heathen, pagan or heed can be heath while keed is (eye dialect) kid.

heed

English

Noun

(-)
  • Careful attention.
  • * 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
  • Then for a few minutes I did not pay much heed to what was said, being terribly straitened for room, and cramped with pain from lying so long in one place.

    Usage notes

    * Often used with give, pay or take.

    Synonyms

    * (careful attention) attention, notice, observation, regard

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To mind; to regard with care; to take notice of; to attend to; to observe.
  • * Dryden
  • With pleasure Argus the musician heeds .
  • * 2013 September 23, Masha Gessen, " Life in a Russian Prison," New York Times (retrieved 24 September 2013):
  • Tolokonnikova not only tried to adjust to life in the penal colony but she even tried to heed the criticism levied at her by colony representatives during a parole hearing.
  • (archaic) To pay attention, care.
  • keed

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (eye dialect) Kid.
  • * 1968 (2014), Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles
  • I’m still with you, keed
  • * 2005 , Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing's Greatest Fighters , Globe Pequot (ISBN 9781592286324), page 134
  • Gutierrez and the boy, then known to Gutierrez as "The Keed'" and to his street friends as Eligio Sardinias, formed an alliance, one destined to make "The ' Keed " el campeon.
  • * 2008 , Josefina Niggli, Mexican Village and Other Works , Northwestern University Press (ISBN 9780810123403), page 512
  • Hello, keed !” Bob put his hand over his ear to shut out the sound. That distant woman&
  • 39;s voice was claiming his entire attention. Joaquín grinned in sympathy and strolled toward the window. “Silence, little ones,” he said reprovingly, “or I will call ...
  • * 2010 , Lawrence Block, No Score , Open Road Media (ISBN 9781453208663)
  • And have the money in my pocket before that kike changes his sonofabitching mind. You want to get ready, keed ?” “Me?” “He means me,” Aileen said. “My prize model.” I said, “No kidding? You do the modeling?” “That&
  • 39;s how I found her, keed.
  • * 2012 , Ann Lacy, Anne Valley Fox, Stories from Hispano New Mexico: A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book , Sunstone Press (ISBN 9780865348851), page 215
  • Mr. Garcia asked me again, “What&
  • 39;s new? You bring me those history books of Billy the Keed ?” I showed him the picture of Pat Garrett who shot Billy the Kid.