dade

Compare diddle.

• IPA^(key): /deɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

dade (third-person singular simple present dades, present participle dading, simple past and past participle daded)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To walk unsteadily, like a child; to move slowly.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:

     No sooner taught to dade, but from their mother trip.

2. (obsolete, transitive) To hold up by leading strings or by the hand, as a toddler.
   • 1597, Michaell Draiton [i.e., Michael Drayton], “[Englands Heroicall Epistles.] (please specify the subtitle)”, in Poems: […], London: […] [Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] Ling, published 1605, →OCLC:

     Little children when they learn to go / By painful mothers daded to and fro.

• Edda, adde, dead

dade

1. plural of daad

dade

1. second-person plural imperative of dar

dade

1. third-person singular optative active of dadāti (“to give”)

dade m

1. Dolenjski form of dad (“father”)

• IPA^(key): [dɑˈdə]
• Hyphenation: da‧de

dade

1. (colloquial) maternal grandmother

   Synonym: dapire