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perdie

perdie is the alternative form of pardie.

Meaning of pardie

Interjection

  1. By God!
    • Yet notwithſtandyng all this geare, / thou cougheſt ſtill, perdy / Ye are a craftie knaue, you cough / to fare deliciouſly.1577, Martial, “Epigrammes out of Martial. [To Parthenope.]”, in Timothe Kendall, transl., Flowers of Epigrammes […], [Manchester]: […] [Charles Simms] for the Spenser Society, published 1874, →OCLC...

Proper noun capitalized: Perdie

Perdie

  1. A diminutive of the female given name Perdita

Questions about perdie

What does perdie mean?
Perdie means a diminutive of the female given name Perdita.
What is perdie the alternative form of?
Perdie is the alternative form of pardie.
What part of speech is perdie?
Perdie is a proper noun.

Words near perdie in the dictionary

  1. perdeuteration
  2. Perdew
  3. Perdews
  4. perdialytic
  5. perdicine
  6. perdie
  7. perdifoil
  8. perdifoils
  9. perdita
  10. perditas
  11. Perditean

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Adapted from Wiktionary: perdie (page history and authors); Perdie (page history and authors); pardie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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