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yead

yead noun: head.

Noun

yead (plural yeads)

  1. (dialectal) head
    • The Derbyshire people have a saying-- "Darbyshire born, and Darbyshire bred, Strong o' the yarm and weak o' the yead."1850, William Cullen Bryant, Letters of a Traveller
    • "Beer doan't agree wi' my inzide, an' it gits into my yead, and makes me proper jolly, zo the young volk make game on me.1906, Mrs. Henry De La Pasture, Peter's Mother

Forms of yead

pluralyeads

Questions about yead

What does yead mean?
Yead means head.
What part of speech is yead?
Yead is a noun.
What is the plural of yead?
The plural of yead is yeads.

Words near yead in the dictionary

  1. yea-sayers
  2. yea-saying
  3. yea-sayings
  4. yea-says
  5. yeaaah
  6. yead
  7. Yeading
  8. Yeadon
  9. Yeadonian
  10. Yeadons
  11. yeads

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