dade
English
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edit- IPA(key): /deɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪd
Verb
editdade (third-person singular simple present dades, present participle dading, simple past and past participle daded)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
- 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] H[umphrey] L[ownes] for Mathew Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, published 1613, →OCLC:
- No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.
- (obsolete, transitive) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
- 1597, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] (please specify the subtitle)”, in Poems: […], London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, published 1605, →OCLC:
- Little children when they learn to go / By painful mothers daded to and fro.
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editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dade”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Verb
editdade
- third-person singular optative active of dadāti (“to give”)
Romani
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editdade m
- Dolenjski form of dad (“father”)
Zazaki
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editdade
- (colloquial) maternal grandmother
- Synonym: dapire
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