daid

daid (not comparable)

1. (dialect) Nonstandard spelling of dead.
   • 1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige‎:

     "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——"

   • 1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook‎:

     "I wish I wuz daid. 'Tain' nothin' but wuk, wuk from mawnin' tell night."

   • 1919, Henry Herbert Knibbs, The Ridin' Kid from Powder River‎:

     "Why, he's daid!" he exclaimed, poking the lion with the muzzle of his gun.

   • 1922, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar‎:

     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!

   • 1929, Carl Henry Grabo, The Cat in Grandfather's House‎:

     In de mawnin' w'en he go to milk de cow, sho'nuf dey wuz a hawg a-lyin' on its side, daid.

• Dida, diad

Borrowed from English dad.

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠadʲ/

daid m (genitive singular daid, nominative plural daideanna)

1. (informal) dad

• daidí
• deaide

daid

1. accusative/genitive plural of dat

• IPA^(key): /dai̯d/

daid

1. soft mutation of taid (“grandfather”)