Zed vs Yed - What's the difference?
zed | yed |
Something Z-shaped. Found in compounds such as zed-bar.
(colloquial) (usually plural ) Sleep (as in "get some zeds").
(informal) To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
* 1991 , Jim Cartwright, Bed
* 1992 , David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city
* 2007 , Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy
(rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
* 1931 , Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin
* 1994 , Tibor Fischer, The thought gang
(archaic) To speak; sing.
To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.
To contend; wrangle.
To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.
To be associated with a place or locality. (rfex)
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1950
, date = December
, first = Lee
, last = Hoffman
, authorlink =
, title = Chaos
, magazine = Quandry
, url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/Quandry/Quandry5-02.html
, volume =
, issue = 5
, page = 3
, passage = Fandom is a wonderful thing. We used to live in Florida ten years ago. Across the street lived a lad two years older than yed' who had the most wonderful collection of comic books...all of a stf nature. At the ripe old age of eight ' yed was swept to Georgia and the lad with the comics was never heard from. Since entering fandom we thought much of him and wondered if he were not a slan. This morning we learned that he is a member of NFFF and TFSC. Naturally we got a letter off to him.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1952
, date = February
, first = Fred J.
, last = Robinson
, authorlink =
, title = Arose By Any Other Name
, magazine = Straight Up
, url = http://www.gostak.co.uk/FR/SU1.htm
, volume = 1
, issue = 1
, page = 1
, passage = All of which sprang (crawled?) from the fertile skull of yed , no doubt it is something in my Radius.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
, year = 1976
, date = November
, first = Lee
, last = Hoffman
, authorlink =
, title = Editorial
, magazine = Science-Fiction Five-Yearly
, url = http://fanac.org/fanzines/SF_Five_Yearly/sffy6-04.html
, volume =
, issue = 6
, page = 4
, passage = In preparation for this momentous occasion yed has been browsing past issues of this sterling journal, and it has come to our attention that previous articles by yhos have been devoted largely to bemoaning the multitude of technical problems encountered in production -- the difficulties of duplication, the miseries of mimeography.
}}
As nouns the difference between zed and yed
is that zed is while yed is (archaic) a saying or yed can be a burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground or yed can be .As verbs the difference between zed and yed
is that zed is (informal) to sleep or nap (compare zzz, catch some z's) while yed is (archaic) to speak; sing or yed can be to burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.zed
English
Noun
(en noun)See also
*Synonyms
* zee (especially in the US) * izzardSee also
* zetaVerb
- Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
- I guess I must have zedded , for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
- "Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."
- We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
- Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.