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'.
- take one's hat off to
- take one's leave
- take one's life in one's hands
- take one's medicine
- take one's place
- take one's seat
- take one's time
- take (or bear) the consequences
- take (or bring) someone down a peg or two
- take (or catch) someone's fancy
- take (or draw) someone aside
- take (or draw) someone to/on one side
- take (or get) a pounding
- take (or get) one's lumps
- take (or have) a punt at
- take (or have) pity
- take (or lift) the lid off (or lift the lid on)
- take (or pick) up the slack
- take (or plead) the Fifth
- take (or plead) the Fifth Amendment
- takeout
- take-out double
- take over
- takeover
- takeover bid