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made¹

  • /meɪd/ US, UK
  • /med/ Scotland
  • /meːd/ Wales
  • /meːd/ Ireland
  • /meɪd/
  • /meːd/
  • /meːd/ Northumbria
  • /mɛd/ Northumbria

Sounds like maid (pane–pain merger) · Rhymes with -eɪd

Where it comes from

From Middle English mathe, from Old English maþu, maþa (“maggot, worm, grub”), from Proto-Germanic *maþô (“maggot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mot- (“worm, grub, caterpillar, moth”). Cognate with Scots mathe, maithe (“maggot”), Dutch made (“maggot”), German Made (“maggot”). More at maggot.

noun mades · mad · mathe

  1. UK, dialectal, obsolete A grub or maggot.

made²

  • /meɪd/ US, UK
  • /med/ Scotland
  • /meːd/ Wales
  • /meːd/ Ireland
  • /meɪd/
  • /meːd/
  • /meːd/ Northumbria
  • /mɛd/ Northumbria

Sounds like maid (pane–pain merger) · Rhymes with -eɪd

Where it comes from

From Middle English made, makede, makode (preterite) and maad, mad, maked (past participle), from Old English macode (first and third person preterite) and macod, gemacode, ġemacod (past participle), from macian (“to make”). More at make.

verb

  1. participle, past simple past and past participle of make
  2. Geordie, participle, past simple past and past participle of myek
  3. Wearside, participle, past simple past and past participle of mak

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: successful, ready-made, drove, harvest, pulled, baked, shed, pointed, tailor, grown, couched, wrought, lodged, covered, built, pack

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@misc{made_2026,
  title = {made},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/made},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}