Keen vs Keed - What's the difference?
keen | keed |
showing a quick and ardent willingness or responsiveness, enthusiastic, eager; interested, intense.
vehement; fierce; as, a keen appetite.
* (rfdate),
* (rfdate), Shakespeare
sharp; having a fine edge or point.
* (rfdate) :
acute of mind; sharp; penetrating; having or expressing mental acuteness.
* (rfdate),
* (rfdate),
bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm.
* (rfdate)
piercing; penetrating; cutting; sharp; -- applied to cold, wind, etc,; as, a keen wind; the cold is very keen.
* (rfdate),
Enthusiastic
(US, informal, dated) Marvelous.
(UK) extremely low as to be competitive.
(obsolete) brave, courageous; bold, audacious.
(rare) To sharpen; to make cold.
* (rfdate), Thomson.
To utter a keen.
* (rfdate) Stuart Howard-Jones (1904-1974), Hibernia.'' Collected in ''The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, 1978.
To utter with a loud wailing voice or wordless cry.
*
To mourn.
*
(eye dialect) Kid.
* 1968 (2014), Robert Sheckley, Dimension of Miracles
* 2005 , Bert Randolph Sugar, Boxing's Greatest Fighters , Globe Pequot (ISBN 9781592286324), page 134
* 2008 , Josefina Niggli, Mexican Village and Other Works , Northwestern University Press (ISBN 9780810123403), page 512
* 2010 , Lawrence Block, No Score , Open Road Media (ISBN 9781453208663)
* 2012 , Ann Lacy, Anne Valley Fox, Stories from Hispano New Mexico: A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project Book , Sunstone Press (ISBN 9780865348851), page 215
As nouns the difference between keen and keed
is that keen is a prolonged wail for a deceased person while keed is (eye dialect) kid.As an adjective keen
is showing a quick and ardent willingness or responsiveness, enthusiastic, eager; interested, intense.As a verb keen
is (rare) to sharpen; to make cold or keen can be to utter a keen.keen
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) . More at (l), (l).Alternative forms
* keene, kene (archaic)Adjective
(er)- Of full keen will.
- So keen and greedy to confound a man.
- That my keen knife see not the wound it makes.
- To make our wits more keen .
- Before the keen inquiry of her thought.
- Good father cardinal, cry thou amen to my keen curses.
- Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes.
- I'm keen to learn another language.
- I'm keen on learning another language.
- I'm keen on languages.
- I'm keen about learning languages.
- I'm keen for help.
- ''"Do you want to learn another language?" / "I'm keen ."
- I just got this peachy keen new dress.
- keen prices
Usage notes
* Keen is often used in the composition of words, most of which are of obvious signification; as, keen-edged, keen-eyed, keen-sighted, keen-witted, etc.Synonyms
* prompt; eager; ardent; sharp; acute; cutting; penetrating; biting; severe; sarcastic; satirical; piercing; shrewd. * See alsoDerived terms
* keen-witted * keen as mustard * keen on * keenly * keennessVerb
(en verb)- Cold winter keens the brightening flood.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Verb
(en verb)- Keen —meaning 'brisk'? Nay, here the Language warps:
'Tis singing bawdy Ballads to a Corpse.
Anagrams
* ----keed
English
Noun
(en noun)- I’m still with you, keed
- 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.
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.