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ceilidhed

ceilidhed is the simple past and past participle of ceilidh.

Meaning of ceilidh

Verb

ceilidh (third-person singular simple present ceilidhs, present participle ceilidhing, simple past and past participle ceilidhed)

  1. (Ireland, Scotland, also, attributive, intransitive) To attend a ceilidh (noun sense 1).
    • Captain Mac was certainly making the most of his enforced stay at safe anchorage. He had told Fergus he would ceilidh the night away with the help of Tam McKinnon's home-brewed malt whisky. From the sound of it one half of the ceilidh was on board ship, the other half no doubt in Tam McKinnon's...1983, Christine Marion Fraser, chapter 1, in Children of Rhanna, London: Fontana, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, part I (Winter 1941), page 7
  2. (Ireland, Scotland, also, attributive, intransitive) To dance a ceilidh dance.
    • Nightly the scratch of fiddles and the thud of a reel-set staccatoed the timbers [of the ship sailing from Londonderry to Boston], as the peasant Irish ceilidhed their way to 'Amerikay'.2001, Brendan Graham, chapter 5, in The Element of Fire, London: HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 27

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Questions about ceilidhed

What is ceilidhed the simple past and past participle of?
Ceilidhed is the simple past and past participle of ceilidh.

Words near ceilidhed in the dictionary

  1. ceilidh dance
  2. ceilidh dances
  3. ceilidh house
  4. ceilidh houses
  5. ceilidhean
  6. ceilidhed
  7. ceilidher
  8. ceilidhers
  9. ceilidhing
  10. ceilidhs
  11. ceilin'

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