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yeed

yeed is the alternative form of yede.

Meaning of yede

Verb

yede

  1. (literary, obsolete) To go (mistakenly used as a pseudo-archaism by 16th-century poets and their imitators).
    • The whiles on foot was forced for to yeed, / With that blacke Palmer, his moſt truſty guide;1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 232

Questions about yeed

What is yeed the alternative form of?
Yeed is the alternative form of yede.

Words near yeed in the dictionary

  1. yee-hawed
  2. yee-hawing
  3. yee-haws
  4. yee-yee ass
  5. yeech
  6. yeed
  7. yeees
  8. yeeha
  9. yeehah
  10. yeehahed
  11. yeehahing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: yeed (page history and authors); yede (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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