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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

That euery wight ferleit of his deid, And al his fois ſtondith ful of dreid.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat

And aye before me gapes a pit Far deeper than the sea, And waefn' sounds rise up below, And deid men call on me.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. by Various

He’s no’ lang deid neither, or ye could speir at himsel’.

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

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