lid
/lɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.81 in modern English
4
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "“Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire."
- "Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes."
- "the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders"
- "But he suddenly started up, and, closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake."
- "Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth[…]."
- "Basically he says that there is a lid on my organization and on my future, and that lid is me. I am the problem with my company and you are the problem with your company."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- Proto-Indo-European *-éyti Proto-Indo-European *ḱléyti Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós Proto-Indo-European *-om Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitóm Proto-Germanic *hlidą Proto-West Germanic *hlid Old English hlid Middle English lid English lid Inherited from Middle English lid, lyd, from Old English hlid, from Proto-West Germanic *hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlitós (“covered”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to cover”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: lid, hlid, *hlid, *hlidą, *ḱlitós, *ḱley-
Usage
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
blow one's lid
blow the lid off
call a lid
flip one's lid
flip the lid
flip your lid
keep a lid on
keep the lid on something