Whid

noun, verb

noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A quick motion; a rapid, quiet movement, usually by small game.
  2. 2
    A lie; a falsehood. Scotland, obsolete
  3. 3
    A word. obsolete
  4. 4
    A quarrel. UK, dialectal, obsolete
Verb
  1. 1
    To move nimbly and with little noise, usually of small game.
  2. 2
    To tell a lie. Scotland, intransitive, obsolete

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scudscut

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English *whid, from Old English hwiþa, hweoþu (“air, breeze”) or from Old Norse hviða (“gust of wind”), both from Proto-Germanic *hwiþō (“rush of wind”), from Proto-Germanic *hwi- (“to rush”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwei- (“to hiss, whistle, whisper”). Cognate with Scots quhid (“a squall, blast of wind”).

Etymology 2

Perhaps from Old English cwide (“word, speech”).

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