Wid vs Cannabis - What's the difference?
wid | cannabis |
(informal, or, dialectal) with
* 1893, , Maggie: A Girl of the Streets [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=vQi_d7a7sZoC&pg=PA55&lpg=PA55&sig=N8UFY9cvyaBxRcr0Asm4JuLf9Y8]
* 1922, , The Hairy Ape, [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=Z2ZgNkU5r18C&pg=PA258&lpg=PA258&sig=_ZQWa7a1p_C4jGCG0woMSdujZhw]
* 1940, Shirley Graham, “It’s Morning,” in Black Female Playwrights, Kathy A Perkins ed. [http://print.google.com/print?hl=en&id=ZV3afTMMSHsC&pg=PA221&lpg=PA221&sig=32zaTsB-Xv0Yi-dHcTbtr-8rNCA]
A tall annual dioecious plant (Cannabis'', especially ''Cannabis sativa ), native to central Asia and having alternate, palmately divided leaves and tough bast fibers.
A mildly euphoriant, intoxicating hallucinogenic drug prepared from various parts of this plant.
The purified and decarboxylated resin of the cannabis plant used for medicinal purposes rather than for any intoxicating effects.
As a preposition wid
is (informal|or|dialectal) with.As a proper noun cannabis is
.wid
English
Alternative forms
* wif (informal) * with * wiv (informal)Preposition
(English prepositions)- “An’ wid' all d’ bringin’ up she had, how could she?” moaningly she asked of her son. “'''Wid''' all d’ talkin’ ' wid her I did an’ d’ t’ings I tol’ her to remember. When a girl is bringed up d’ way I bringed up Maggie, how kin she go teh d’ devil?”
- Oh, there was fine beautiful ships them days—clippers wid tall masts touching the sky—fine strong men in them—men that was sons of the sea as if ’twas the mother that bore them.
- Cissie. But, when da saints ob God go marchin’ home
- Mah gal will sing! Wid all da pure, bright stars,
- Tuhgedder wid da mawnin’ stars—She’ll sing!