did

• IPA^(key): /dɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

did

1. simple past of do
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 254:

     Then ſhe with liquors ſtrong his eies did ſteepe, / That nothing ſhould him haſtily awake […]

2. (nonstandard, especially Southern US, African-American Vernacular) past participle of do; done
   • 2008 March 1, Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence‎, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 140:

     […] But I don't care, I mean I don't even care. She shouldn't have did that."

   • 2010 October 10, Jeanette R Davidson, quoting Bea Jenkins, African American Studies‎, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 189:

     We have to take this brutality. We haven't did anything. Why?

   • 2014 May 6, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores‎, Penguin, →ISBN, page 288:

     “Spanky—I mean, the exec, Mr. McFaarlane, say the number four gun has did for another cruiser, but they all gonna drown, aft, as much water as the screws is throwin' up!"

   • 2022, Nas (lyrics and music), “Legit”, in King's Disease III:

     On my soul, this for my kids and the cold shit I done did

• DDI, I/DD, IDD, ddI, idd

did

1. (archaic) thither, to there, towards that place

• dertil

• hid, der

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲɪdʲ/

did f (genitive singular dide, nominative plural dideanna)

1. Alternative form of dide (“teat, nipple”)

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), chapter DID, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) chapter DID, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 240
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 81
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) chapter DID, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Derived from English did.

• IPA^(key): /did/

did

1. Marks the past tense.

   Im did wel rich. Nou im puo.

   He was very rich. Now he's poor.

   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Jan 1:40:

     Saiman Piita did av wan breda niem Anju. Nou, Anju a did wan a Jan tuu falara dem we did fala Jiizas afta dem ier wa Jan did se bout im.

     Simon Peter had a brother named Andrew. Andrew was one of John's two followers that followed Jesus after hearing what John said about him.

• did at majstro.com

Akin to Italian dito, from Latin digitus.

did

1. finger

did

1. Obsolete spelling of de (“you (plural)”)

From Proto-Brythonic *dið, from Proto-Celtic *dīyos (“day”) (compare Old Irish día), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws, *dyew-.

• IPA^(key): /dɨːð/

did m

1. day

• Middle Welsh: dyð
  • Welsh: dydd

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈdiːd]

did m (plural) (Ravenna)

1. finger

• djȅd (Ijekavian)
• dȅda, dȅd (Ekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dědъ.

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

dȉd m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏д)

1. (Ikavian) grandfather

From Ikavian Serbo-Croatian did.

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

did m

1. grandfather

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

• IPA^(key): /dɪd/

did

1. simple past of doone
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:

     Maade a nicest coolecannan that e'er ye did zee.

     Made the nicest coolecannan that ever you did see.

• didn'st

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 94