Zed vs Zek - What's the difference?
zed | zek |
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
A prisoner at a Russian prison, especially (historical) at a Soviet labour camp.
*1988 , Stefani Hoffman, translating (Natan Sharansky), Fear No Evil , p. 235:
*:Every prisoner who recants is a potential influence on other zeks to do likewise.
*2004 , Jason Burke, The Observer , 8 Feb 2004:
*:There are the zeks , the survivors of the gulags, some honest about their experiences, others still deluded or traumatised decades later.
As nouns the difference between zed and zek
is that zed is while zek is a prisoner at a russian prison, especially (historical) at a soviet labour camp.As a verb zed
is (informal) to sleep or nap (compare zzz, catch some z's).zed
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* 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.