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Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
1992, David Robins, Tarnished vision: crime and conflict in the inner city:
I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
2007, Polly Williams, The Yummy Mummy:
"Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."
1931, Reginald Rankin, The Collected Works of Lt. Colonel Sir Reginald Rankin:
We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
1994, Tibor Fischer, The thought gang:
Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.
1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 5, page 104:
Hea zed mee cuck vlew in a aare.
He said my cock flew into the air.
References
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 81 & 104