deid

/ diːd /

adjective

1. a Scot word for dead

Example Sentences

"The taxi driver said 'I thought you were deid'."

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And no one would need concern themselves about the aliens popping by and finding that all the names on the lunar message were long deid.

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The broken, undulating ground, with its little knolls and hollows, tells of nice covert for the grouse when the mid-day sun is high, and the birds are, as an old keeper used to say, "lying deid in the heather."

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Gie few — and they’re a’ deid”?

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The turtour for hir maik, Mair dule may nocht indure Nor I do for hir saik, Evin hir quha hes in cure My hairt, quhilk salbe sure, And service to the deid, Unto that lady pure, The well of woman heid.

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