did

• IPA^(key): /dɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

did

1. simple past of do

   Jeez, did I make a mistake!

   I never did like her much.

   What did happen when the principal found out?

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 254:

     Then ſhe with liquors ſtrong his eies did ſteepe, / That nothing ſhould him haſtily awake […]

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 110:

     Monsieur Thuran became a frequent visitor at the home of Hazel Strong’s uncle in Cape Town. His attentions were very marked, but they were so punctiliously arranged to meet the girl’s every wish that she came to depend upon him more and more. Did she or her mother or a cousin require an escort—was there a little friendly service to be rendered, the genial and ubiquitous Monsieur Thuran was always available.

2. (nonstandard, especially Southern US, African-American Vernacular) past participle of do; done
   • 2008 March 1, Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence‎^[1], NYU Press, →ISBN, page 140:

     […] But I don't care, I mean I don't even care. She shouldn't have did that."

   • 2010 October 10, Jeanette R Davidson, quoting Bea Jenkins, African American Studies‎^[2], Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 189:

     We have to take this brutality. We haven't did anything. Why?

   • 2014 May 6, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores‎^[3], Penguin, →ISBN, page 288:

     “Spanky—I mean, the exec, Mr. McFaarlane, say the number four gun has did for another cruiser, but they all gonna drown, aft, as much water as the screws is throwin' up!"

   • 2022, Nas, “Legit”, in King's Disease III:

     On my soul, this for my kids and the cold shit I done did

• DDI, I/DD, IDD, ddI, idd

From Old Danish thiæt, from Old Norse þit.

did

1. (archaic) thither, to there, towards that place

• dertil

• hid, der

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲɪdʲ/

did f (genitive singular dide, nominative plural dideanna)

1. alternative form of dide (“teat, nipple”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “did”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
• Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904) “did”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 240
• Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), Zweiter Band: Wörterbuch [Second volume: Dictionary], Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 81
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “did”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Derived from English did.

• IPA^(key): /did/

did

1. Marks the past tense.

   Im did wel rich. Nou im puo.

   He was very rich. Now he's poor.

   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Jan 1:40:

     Saiman Piita did av wan breda niem Anju. Nou, Anju a did wan a Jan tuu falara dem we did fala Jiizas afta dem ier wa Jan did se bout im.

     Simon Peter had a brother named Andrew. Andrew was one of John's two followers that followed Jesus after hearing what John said about him.

• did at majstro.com

Akin to Italian dito, from Latin digitus.

did

1. finger

did

1. obsolete spelling of de (“you (plural)”)

From Proto-Brythonic *dið, from Proto-Celtic *dīyos (“day”) (compare Old Irish día), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws, *dyew-.

• IPA^(key): /dɨːð/

did m

1. day

• Middle Welsh: dyð
  • Welsh: dydd

• (Central Romagnol): IPA^(key): [ˈdiːd]

did m (plural) (Ravenna)

1. finger

• djȅd (Ijekavian)
• dȅda, dȅd (Ekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dědъ.

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

dȉd m anim (Cyrillic spelling ди̏д)

1. (Ikavian) grandfather

From Ikavian Serbo-Croatian did.

• IPA^(key): /dîd/

did m

1. grandfather

• Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).

• IPA^(key): /dɪd/

did

1. simple past of doone
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 94:

     Maade a nicest coolecannan that e'er ye did zee.

     Made the nicest coolecannan that ever you did see.

• didn'st

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 94