Join free

yed

English · Français

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

yed¹

Where it comes from

From Middle English yedden, from Old English ġieddian (“to speak formally, discuss, speak with alliteration, recite, sing”), from ġiedd (“song, poem, saying, proverb, riddle, speech, story, tale, narrative, account, reckoning, reason”).

verb yeds · yedding · yedded · yedd

  1. archaic, intransitive To speak; sing.
  2. UK, dialectal, intransitive To magnify greatly in narration; exaggerate a tale; fib.
  3. UK, dialectal, intransitive To contend; wrangle.

yed²

Where it comes from

From Middle English yed, from Old English ġiedd (“song, poem, saying, proverb, riddle, speech, story, tale, narrative, account, reckoning, reason”).

noun yeds · yedd

  1. archaic A saying.
  2. UK, dialectal A falsehood; leasing.

yed³

Where it comes from

From Middle English erthen (“to bury, dig”), from erthe (“earth”). Influenced or conflated with Middle English erden (“to dwell, inhabit”), from Old English eardian (“to live, dwell, be inhabitant, occupy”). More at earth.

verb yeds · yedding · yedded · yerd · eard

  1. UK, dialectal To burrow underground, as a rabbit or mole; also said of miners.
  2. UK, dialectal To be associated with a place or locality.

noun yeds · yerd · eard · yedd

  1. UK, dialectal A burrow; a hole made by an animal in the ground.

yed⁴

Where it comes from

Blend of your + editor.

noun yeds · yedd

  1. dated, slang A self-reference to the editor of a periodical; a substitution for the editor's name or signature. Fandom is a wonderful thing. We used to live in Florida ten years ago. Across the street lived a lad two years older than yed who had the most wonderful collection of comic books...all of a stf nature. At the ripe old age of eight yed was swept to Georgia and the lad with the comics was never heard

Talk about this word

Cite this
MLA

"yed." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/yed. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

APA

yed. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/yed

Chicago

"yed." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/yed.

BibTeX
@misc{yed_2026,
  title = {yed},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/yed},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}