eident
/ˈʌɪd(ə)nt
/adjective Scottish & Northern Irish
Diligent; industrious: a gifted and eident pupil...
- The same officer leant an eident ear to a pipe band playing in the square.
- The bumble bee or the blue-bottle can't compare to the eident honey bees going about their day with no fuss.
- She was always an eident, working woman.
Origin
Early 16th century: Scots variant of obsolete ithand from Old Norse iðinn 'assiduous, diligent'.