"eediot" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: eediots [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} eediot (plural eediots)
  1. (nonstandard, dialect) idiot Tags: dialectal, nonstandard Related terms: eejit
    Sense id: en-eediot-en-noun-SPq3pWR5

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for eediot meaning in English (1.2kB)

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          "ref": "January 12 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Letter to Charles Baxter, Thomson",
          "text": "Stevison's last book 's in a third edeetion; an' it's bein' translated (like the psaulms of David, nae less) into French; and an eediot they ca' Asher — a kind o' rival of Tauchnitz — is bringin' him oot in a paper book for the Frenchies and the German folk in twa volumes.",
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