Shid vs Fard - What's the difference?
shid | fard |
(obsolete) A piece of firewood four feet long.
(obsolete) A unit of length measuring four feet.
(nonstandard, obsolete, alliteration)
* 1920 Well, gen'lemen, this is better, but a record property shid fetch a record price. — John Galsworthy, The Skin Game , Act II, Scene I
(archaic) Colour or paint, especially white paint, used on the face; makeup, war-paint.
* 1791 , John Whitaker, Rev. Gibbon’s Decline and Fall
(archaic) To paint, as the face or cheeks.
* Zachary Boyd
(archaic) To gloss over or embellish.
* 1606 , William Birnie, The blame of kirk-buriall
* 1816 , Sir Walter Scott, Tales of my Landlord
In obsolete terms the difference between shid and fard
is that shid is a unit of length measuring four feet while fard is force of movement, impetus, rush, violent onset.As an initialism SHID
is Slaps Head In Disgust.shid
English
Noun
(en noun)References
*"shid", accessed on 2005-05-03, which in turn cites: Richard Hayes, The Negociator’s Magazine: or, The most authentick account yet published of the Monies, Weights, and Measures of the Principal Places of Trade in the World. , John Noon, London, 1740, page 206.
Verb
shid (nonstandard)Anagrams
* * ----fard
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* ** faird * ** feardNoun
(-)- Painted with French fard .
Verb
(en verb)- The fairest are but farded like the face of Jezebel.
- Our funerals wherewith we but feard death.
- Nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath.