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Yead vs Mead - What's the difference?

yead | mead |

As a noun yead

is (dialect) head.

As a proper noun mead is

.

yead

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (dialect) head
  • *{{quote-book, year=1850, author=William Cullen Bryant, title=Letters of a Traveller, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The Derbyshire people have a saying-- "Darbyshire born, and Darbyshire bred, Strong o' the yarm and weak o' the yead ." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1906, author=Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, title=Peter's Mother, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="Beer doan't agree wi' my inzide, an' it gits into my yead , and makes me proper jolly, zo the young volk make game on me. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1918, author=J. Arthur Gibbs, title=A Cotswold Village, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Put 'v' for 'f'; for 's' put 'z'; 'Th' and 't' we change to 'd,'-- So dry an' kip this in thine yead , An' thou wills't talk as plain as we." }}

    mead

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) mede, from (etyl) medu, from (etyl) ‘honey; honey wine’.

    Alternative forms

    * meath, meathe, meeth (all obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • An alcoholic drink fermented from honey and water.
  • (US) A drink composed of syrup of sarsaparilla or other flavouring extract, and water, and sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.
    • Derived terms
    * mead-bench * meadery

    See also

    * ambrosia noun * ("mead" on Wikipedia)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) . Cognate with West Frisian miede, Low German Meed, (Mede).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (poetic) A meadow.
  • * 1848 , , In Memoriam , 28:
    • Four voices of four hamlets round, / From far and near, on mead and moor, / Swell out and fail, as if a door / Were shut between me and the sound [...].
  • * 1920 , :
    • There ran little streams over bright pebbles, dividing meads of green and gardens of many hues, [...].

    Anagrams

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