showd

/ (ʃaʊd) Northeast Scot dialect /

verb

(intr) to rock or sway to and fro
(tr) to rock (a baby in one's arms or in a pram)

noun

a rocking motion

Origin of showd

from Old English scūdan to shake

Words Nearby showd

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How to use showd in a sentence

I had to put a reef in crinny line, cos it showd, and it tuk ma's pach-wurk quilt to mak my bussel big enuf for stile.
The Bad Boy At Home | Walter T. Gray
I have seen thee in her, and I do adore thee: My mistress showd me thee, and thy dog, and thy bush.
The Tempest | William Shakespeare
I was showd up to the visters gallary, so as I culd get a good vue of the fite wot was goin on tween the grangers and coalers.
The Bad Boy At Home | Walter T. Gray
I was in de war wid my marster, an' he showd good blood to de Yankees.
Unfettered | Sutton E. Griggs
Whereupon Caliban says: I have seen thee in her and I do adore thee: my mistress showd me thee, and thy dog and thy bush.
Folk-lore of Shakespeare | Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

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