zed
Englisch
Etymology
From Middle English zed, zedde, zede, from Old French zede, from Late Latin zeta, from Ancient Greek ζῆτα (zêta). Letter had rare nonstandard usage in Old English, such as in bezt, where it represented "ts" (compare the German pronunciation of Z). For the sleep sense, see zzz. The zombie sense comes from the initial letter. Doublet of zeta.
Pronunciation
Nomen
zed (plural zeds) (chiefly Commonwealth)
- The name of the Latin-script letter Z/z.
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- (in combination) Something Z-shaped.
- zed-bar
- (colloquial, usually in the plural) Sleep.
- I'm going to go get some zeds.
- (slang) A zombie.
- A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.
Synonyms
- (all): zee (US, Philippines, Newfoundland)
- (letter): izzard (Scotland)
- (sleep): zee (Canada) (more common)
Translations
name of the letter Z, z — see zee
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
Verb
zed (third-person singular simple present zeds, present participle zedding, simple past and past participle zedded) (chiefly British, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Ireland, South Africa)
- (intransitive, informal) To sleep oder nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
- 1991, Jim Cartwright, Bed:
- Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
- 1992, David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city:
- I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
- 2007, Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy:
- "Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."
- (intransitive, rare) To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
- 1931, Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin
- We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
- 1994, Tibor Fischer, The thought gang:
- Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.
- 1931, Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin
See also
Middle English
Etymology 1
Adjective
zed
Etymology 2
Nomen
zed
- Alternative form of seed (“seed”)
Yola
Etymology 1
From Middle English soden, sode (“seethed”, past participle of sethen), with the vowel taken from other forms of the verb.
Adjective
zed
Etymology 2
Verb
zed
- simple past tense of zey (“to say”)
- 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5:
- Hea zed.
- He said.
References
- 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 81 & 104
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