waylaid

English

Alternative forms

• waylayed (nonstandard)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌweɪˈleɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

waylaid

1. simple past and past participle of waylay
   • ca. 1597, William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part I, Act I, sc. 2:

     I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage

     alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob

     those men that we have already 'waylaid – yourself and I

     will not be there. And when they have the booty, if you

     and I do not rob them – cut this head off from my

     shoulders.

   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 20:

     My beloved reader has no doubt in the course of his experience been waylaid by many such a luckless companion