"daid" meaning in English

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Adjective

Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} daid (not comparable)
  1. (dialect) Nonstandard spelling of dead. Tags: alt-of, dialectal, nonstandard, not-comparable Alternative form of: dead
    Sense id: en-daid-en-adj-g-G1NeT5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige",
          "text": "\"I c-can't he'p myse'f,\" stammered Celia; \"you say such frightful things to me—you tell me that they happen in my own house—in her own room—How can I be calm? How can I believe such things of—of Constance Berkley—of yo' daid mother——\"",
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          "ref": "1916, Peggy Edmund, Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook",
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          "ref": "1919, Henry Herbert Knibbs, The Ridin' Kid from Powder River",
          "text": "\"Why, he's daid!\" he exclaimed, poking the lion with the muzzle of his gun.",
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        {
          "ref": "1922, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar",
          "text": "Ah, Mistah 'Possum, we got you at las'—\nNeed n't play daid, laying dah on de groun';\nFros' an' de 'simmons has made you grow fas',—\nWon't he be fine when he's roasted up brown!",
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          "ref": "1929, Carl Henry Grabo, The Cat in Grandfather's House",
          "text": "In de mawnin' w'en he go to milk de cow, sho'nuf dey wuz a hawg a-lyin' on its side, daid.",
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          "ref": "1929, Carl Henry Grabo, The Cat in Grandfather's House",
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