daid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.34 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Nonstandard spelling of dead.
Example Sentences
- ""I c-can't he'p myse'f," stammered Celia; "you say such frightful things to me—you tell me that they happen in my own house—in her own room—How can I be calm? How can I believe such things of—of Constance Berkley—of yo' daid mother——""
- ""I wish I wuz daid. 'Tain' nothin' but wuk, wuk from mawnin' tell night.""
- ""Why, he's daid!" he exclaimed, poking the lion with the muzzle of his gun."
- "Ah, Mistah 'Possum, we got you at las'— Need n't play daid, laying dah on de groun'; Fros' an' de 'simmons has made you grow fas',— Won't he be fine when he's roasted up brown!"
- "In de mawnin' w'en he go to milk de cow, sho'nuf dey wuz a hawg a-lyin' on its side, daid."