Maid vs Meid - What's the difference?
maid | meid |
(dated, or, poetic) A girl or an unmarried young woman; maiden.
A female servant or cleaner (short for maidservant).
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
, chapter=2 (archaic) A virgin of either gender.
* 1380+ , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales)
* 1601 , (William Shakespeare), (Twelfth Night)
(South Africa, offensive) A young black woman.
*1979 , , A Dry White Season , Vintage 1998, p. 113:
*:The last time she heard Capt Stolz saying: ‘Come on, meid , speak up. Or do you want to die like Gordon Ngubene?’
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As nouns the difference between maid and meid
is that maid is maiden while meid is amount, quantity, extent, degree, number or meid can be size, magnitude.maid
English
Noun
(en noun)- Note - maid is often used in the common or species names of flowering plants.
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.}}
- Crist was a mayde and shapen as a man.
- You are betrothed both to a maid and man.