Noun: ged
Sample Sentences
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He's a perfect ged for silver. [1808, John Jamieson, A Dictionary of the Scottish Language:]
Nouns inflected like ged
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English gedde, from Old Norse gedda (“pike”), cognate with Icelandic gedda (“pike”), Danish gedde (“pike”). See: Middle English Nouns '
gedde', Old Norse Nouns '
gedda', Icelandic Nouns '
gedda', Danish Nouns '
gedde'.