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maid | daid |

As a noun maid

is a girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.

As an adjective daid is

nonstandard spelling of lang=en.

maid

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dated, or, poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
    • Note - maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.
  • A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
  • * , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid , […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
  • (archaic) A virgin of either gender.
  • * 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
    • Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.
  • * 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night)
    • You are betrothed both to a maid and man.

    Synonyms

    * (young female person) damsel, maiden * (female servant) handmaiden, lady-in-waiting, maidservant * (female cleaner) chambermaid (in a hotel), charlady (in a house), charwoman (in a house)

    See also

    * bridesmaid * French maid * maid of honour * mermaid * old maid

    Anagrams

    * ----

    daid

    English

    Adjective

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  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=Robert W. Chambers, title=Ailsa Paige, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=How can I believe such things of--of Constance Berkley--of yo' daid mother----" "I don't know," he said dully. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1916, author=Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers, title=Toaster's Handbook, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=He rose, stretched, and grumbled: "I wish I wuz daid . }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1919, author=Henry Herbert Knibbs, title=The Ridin' Kid from Powder River, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Why, he's daid !" he exclaimed, poking the lion with the muzzle of his gun. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=Paul Laurence Dunbar, title=The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Ah, Mistah 'Possum, we got you at las'-- Need n't play daid , laying dah on de groun'; Fros' an' de 'simmons has made you grow fas',-- Won't he be fine when he's roasted up brown! }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1929, author=Carl Henry Grabo, title=The Cat in Grandfather's House, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=In de mawnin' w'en he go to milk de cow, sho'nuf dey wuz a hawg a-lyin' on its side, daid . }} ----