broid

broid (third-person singular simple present broids, present participle broiding, simple past and past participle broided)

1. Obsolete form of braid.
   • 1611, 1 Timothy, King James Bible:

     In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

• “broid”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• birdo, borid

From Middle Irish broit, originally the dative of Old Irish brat (“act of plundering”).

broid f (genitive singular broide)

1. (literary) captive; (collective) captives
2. captivity, bondage
3. distress
4. misery, suspense
5. press, hurry

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broid f (genitive singular broide, nominative plural broideanna)

1. stingfish

• brod f

From Old Irish bruitid (“to goad, prick”, verb), from brot m (“goad; spike”); see brod (“goad”).

broid (present analytic broideann, future analytic broidfidh, verbal noun broideadh, past participle broidte)

1. (transitive) to goad, prod
2. (transitive) to nudge

• bruidigh

• broidearnach

broid m

1. inflection of brod (“goad”):
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “broid”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN