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yaud Sc. and north. dial.|jɔːd, jɑːd|
Forms: 4–6 ȝald, 6 ȝad, ȝaid, 6–7 yawde, 6–9 yawd, 8 yade, 8–9 yad, yode, 8– yaud.
[a. ON. jalda (Sw. dial. jälda), poet. word for ‘mare’.]
1. A mare: usually applied to an old mare; also loosely to an old or worn-out horse (associated with jade).
1500–20Dunbar Petit. of Gray Horse Poems lxi. refrain, Schir, lett it nevir in toun be tald, That I sould be ane Ȝuillis ȝald! 1641Brome Joviall Crew iv. i. (1652) K j b, Your Yawdes may take cold, and never be good after it. 1709Queen Anne; or, the Auld Grey Mare iv. in Jacobite Songs & Ball. (1887) 57 And they hae seized the yaud And tied her head and heel. 1719D'Urfey Pills V. 326 She's have a Yode to ride out; She's neither drive the Swine, nor the Plough. 1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 8, I have three owsen in a plough Twa good ga'en yads and gear enough. 1816Scott Bl. Dwarf i, Landlord, get us our breakfast, and see an' get the yauds fed. 1866Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Lizzie Lorton II. 294 [They] sneered at her as the ‘grey yaud wha'd be better rode wi' martingal nor snaffle’.
b. Comb., as yaud-stealer; † yaud-swiver, one who commits buggery with a mare.
1508Dunbar Flyting 246 Muttoun dryver, girnall ryver, ȝadswyvar, fowll fell the. c1560Durham Depos. (Surtees) 60 And yett Ednam shuld still be his father yawd steiller.
c. attrib. or adj. Of a horse: Worn out.
1500–20Dunbar Petit. of Gray Horse 25 Poems lxi, Suppois I war ane ald ȝaid aver, Schott furth our clewch to pull the clever.
†2. A strumpet, whore. Comb. ȝaldson, the ‘son of a whore’; a term of abuse (cf. whoreson).
a1400Morte Arth. 3809 Ȝondire to ȝone ȝaldsones he þat ȝeldes hyme ever,..Be he neuer mo sauede. 1545Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) 41 You leid that said Annapill Graheme wes ane freris get and freris yawde. |