Meed vs Keed - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between meed and keed

is that meed is a payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award while keed is (eye dialect) kid.

As a verb meed

is to reward; bribe.

meed

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) meede, mede, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.

* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.i:

For well she wist, as true it was indeed, / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deserued as his duefull meed , / Her loue, her seruice, and her vtmost wealth.

A gift; bribe.

(obsolete) Merit or desert; worth.

* (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)

My meed hath got me fame.

Quotations

* (English Citations of "meed")

Derived terms

* (l)

Etymology 2

From (etyl) meden, from (etyl) *.

Verb

(en verb)

To reward; bribe.

To deserve; merit.

Anagrams

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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.