Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Scotch form of jade.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Prov. Eng. & Scot. A jade; an old horse or mare.

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Examples

  • Poop man fi drown an dat a yawd man philosophy (Uh huh)

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  • She couldn't actually read yet, but she would sit and turn the pages and recite the thing, word by word: When winter came, Angwus gwew tiward of the same howse and the same cat and the same yawd and all the same things he knew all about.

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  • She couldn't actually read yet, but she would sit and turn the pages and recite the thing, word by word: When winter came, Angwus gwew tiward of the same howse and the same cat and the same yawd and all the same things he knew all about.

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  • In sum way he clim 'ober de yawd fence an' got cl'ar

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  • "I nuver seed no use a-fittin 'unless you is gwine ter fit in de yuther pusson's yawd," interpolated Aunt Rhody.

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  • "Marse George, dat ar Burr boy is a-loungin 'roun' yo 'yawd."

    The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • mai filosofy am cleen up ur oan bak yawd b 4 u traipz tru sumbbuddee elsis.

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  • "The rain didn't stop Usain Bolt's return 'back a yawd'.

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  • "The rain didn't stop Usain Bolt's return 'back a yawd'.

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  • "The rain didn't stop Usain Bolt's return 'back a yawd'.

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