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Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
ġied n
- Alternative form of ġiedd
Scots
Verb
gied
- simple past tense of gie
1715, S.R. Crockett, Bog-Myrtle and Peat:"Hoot na, Portmark, it was yersel' he was hittin' at, and the black e'e ye gied Kirsty six weeks syne."- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1920, James C. Welsh, The Underworld:"Auld Cabbage-heid didna' like me looking at Peter Rundell an' that's the way he gied me four, but I'll get a horse's hair too, an' his tawse 'll soon get wheegh.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1910, William Le Queux, The House of Whispers:They div say as weel that Auld Nick himsel' was present, an' gied the decision that the Cardinal, wha was to be askit ower frae Stirlin', should dee.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)