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Leed vs Fleed - What's the difference?

leed | fleed |

As nouns the difference between leed and fleed

is that leed is sorrow, grief, woe while fleed is the internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard.

As a verb fleed is

(nonstandard) (flee).

leed

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Language; tongue.
  • A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
  • The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
  • A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
  • A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
  • Patter; rigmarole.

    • Related terms

    * (l) ----

    fleed

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (-)
  • The internal fat of a pig before it is melted into lard.
  • *1924 , (Ford Madox Ford), Some Do Not…'', Penguin 2012 (''Parade's End ), p. 134:
  • *:Every Tenterden market day he used to sell fleed cakes from a basket to the carts that went by.

    • Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (nonstandard) (flee)