dade
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
Example Sentences
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"Be the doctah dade, maw?" he asked, in an awed whisper.
From The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine
Dat's Mahey Goodloe, named fo' ole Miss Goodloe what's dade.
From Blister Jones by Jay Hambridge
He says that— "Moneyless they walke With a good wil, witless, meny wyde contreys Ryght as Peter dade and Paul, save that they preche nat."
From Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke
Ich wealde more þan idude mi wit oh to be more To longe ich habbe child iben a worde ⁊ a dade.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
Why no, son, you know that thar fish war dade long 'fore we-uns war born.
From The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine
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