laid

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

laid

1. simple past tense and past participle of lay

Derived terms

• get laid
• laid rope

Adjective

laid (not comparable)

1. (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.

Translations

of paper: ribbed with wires

• French: vergé (fr)

Derived terms

• creamlaid

Statistics

• Most common English words before 1923: sound · didn't · natural · #516: laid · cold · led · low

Anagrams

• Dail
• dial

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French

Etymology

From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Frankish *laiþ (“unpleasant, obstinate, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”). Akin to Old High German leid (“unpleasant, odious”) (German leid (“unfortunate”), Leid (“grief”)), Old Norse leiþr (“odious”), Old English lāþ (“unpleasant, odious”). More at loath.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [lɛ]

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• Homophones: lai, laie, lait

Adjective

laid m (feminine laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)

1. physically ugly
2. morally corrupt

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Jèrriais

Etymology

From Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”).

Adjective

laid m (feminine laie, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laies)

1. ugly
   • Bouonne femme n'est janmais laie.

     "A nice woman is never ugly."

   • Janmais vaque n'a trouvé san vieau laid.

     "A cow never found her calf ugly."

Derived terms

• laid coumme lé péché du Dînmanche (“ugly as sin”)
• laidi (“become ugly, turn ugly”)
• s'laidi (“get ugly, turn ugly”)
• laiduthe, laideune (“ugly character, good-for-nothing”)