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deid

British  
/ diːd /

adjective

  1. a Scot word for dead

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From BBC Nov. 21, 2024

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.

From The Guardian Jul. 13, 2013

"Ower ma deid body," said Tam, puffing contentedly at the very last inch of his own; "the watch-wairds o' victory are 'threeft an' economy'!"

From Tam o' the Scoots by Wallace, Edgar

We cried to him by his name, we skirled in the deid lug of him, we shook him by the shouther.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

When ye're deid ye're deid, and that's a' aboot it.

From A Dominie in Doubt by Neill, Alexander Sutherland

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