stiddyadv.
/ˈstɪdi/ East Anglian dialect.
Instead (of).
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1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure iv. 57 If they'd left the rabbits to the workin' man we'd ha' had 'em in our bellies stiddy of the poor things suffocatin' in their burrows.
1971 Country Life 11 Mar. 533/1 Owd Bob, he cut a slice or tew out of it [a stranded sturgeon] with a hatchet an' all the roe runned away. That's where he done wrong. If we'd a-kept that roe in we'd a-got four bob a pound for it... Stiddy o' that we only got fi'pun from the fishmonger in Ely.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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adv.1946- throwing iron
- throwing knife
- throwing machine
- throwing mill
- throwing net
- throwing off
- throwing on
- throwing or tossing the caber
- throwing out
- throwing over
- throwing power
- throwing room
- throwing spear
- throwing spindle
- throwing star
- throwing table
- throwing the hammer
- throwing up
- throwing wheel
- throwing-board
- throwing-stick
- throwings
- throwingstick
- throwlathe
- throwline