lid

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English [edit]

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Etymology [edit]

Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidan (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlíto (“post, trimmed log”) (compare Old Norse hlíð (“slope”), Welsh clwyd (“gate, hurdle”), Latin clitellae (“pack saddle”), Lithuanian šlìtė (“ladder”), pã-šlitas (“curved”), Russian калитка (kalitka, “gate”), Ancient Greek ἄκλιτος (áklitos, “stable”), δικλίς (diklís, “double-posted (doors, gates)”), Yazghulami xad 'ladder', Sanskrit श्रित (śrita, “standing on, lying on, being on, fixed on, situated in”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”). More at lean.

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Noun [edit]

lid (plural lids)

  1. The top or cover of a container.
  2. (slang) A cap or hat.
    • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XII:
      “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.
  3. (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
  4. (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
    the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders — Kneelo Knews August 2003 [1]
    Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes. — realsurf.com message board 2001 [2]
  5. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
  6. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
  7. (abbreviation) Eyelid.
    • 1907, Robert Chambers, chapter 3, The Younger Set[3]:
      Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; … .

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Translations [edit]

top or cover

Verb [edit]

lid (third-person singular simple present lid, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)

  1. To put a lid on something.

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Czech [edit]

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Noun [edit]

lid m

  1. people

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Danish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Norse hlít.

Noun [edit]

lid c

  1. trust

Verb [edit]

lid

  1. imperative of lide

Dutch [edit]

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Noun [edit]

lid n (plural leden, diminutive lidje)

  1. member (of a group)
  2. member (extremity of a body)

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Rafsi [edit]

lid

  1. rafsi of lindi.

Old High German [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Proto-Germanic *liþ-, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.

Noun [edit]

lid

  1. member

Spanish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Latin lis; see also litigate

Noun [edit]

lid f (plural lides)

  1. lawsuit
  2. fight

Swedish [edit]

Verb [edit]

lid

  1. imperative of lida.
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