gid

American

[gid] / gɪd /

noun

Veterinary Pathology.

a disease of cattle and especially of sheep in which the brain or spinal cord is infested with larvae of the dog tapeworm, Multiceps multiceps, producing staggers.

gid British

/ ɡɪd /

noun

a disease of sheep characterized by an unsteady gait and staggering, caused by infestation of the brain with tapeworms ( Taenia caenuris )

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Etymology

Origin of gid

First recorded in 1550–60; back formation from giddy

Example Sentences

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Freckle-face pulled the ear of my little gid pup.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

An’ they gid down by yon sea-side, An’ down by yon sea-stran’; Sae bonny did the Hollan boats Come rowin’ to their han’.

From Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Sidgwick, Frank

Sturdy, stur′di, n. the gid, a disease affecting young sheep with staggering and stupor, caused by a species of tapeworm in the brain.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

Why, he'd blush to own who gid it to him.

From Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various

"You mighd gid robb' ag'in, you know, 'Sieur Frowenfel'," she said.

From The Grandissimes by Cable, George Washington

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