yaud Sc. and north. dial.
(jɔːd, jɑːd)
Forms: 4–6 ȝald, 6 ȝad, ȝaid, 6–7 yawde, 6–9 yawd, 8 yade, 8–9 yad, yode, 8– yaud.
[a. ON. jalda (Sw. dial. jälda), poet. word for ‘mare’.]
1. A mare: usually applied to an old mare; also loosely to an old or worn-out horse (associated with jade).
| 1500–20 Dunbar Petit. of Gray Horse Poems lxi. refrain, Schir, lett it nevir in toun be tald, That I sould be ane Ȝuillis ȝald! 1641 Brome Joviall Crew iv. i. (1652) K j b, Your Yawdes may take cold, and never be good after it. 1709 Queen Anne; or, the Auld Grey Mare iv. in Jacobite Songs & Ball. (1887) 57 And they hae seized the yaud And tied her head and heel. 1719 D'Urfey Pills V. 326 She's have a Yode to ride out; She's neither drive the Swine, nor the Plough. 1724 Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) I. 8, I have three owsen in a plough Twa good ga'en yads and gear enough. 1816 Scott Bl. Dwarf i, Landlord, get us our breakfast, and see an' get the yauds fed. 1866 Mrs. E. Lynn Linton Lizzie Lorton II. 294 [They] sneered at her as the ‘grey yaud wha'd be better rode wi' martingal nor snaffle’. |
b. Comb., as yaud-stealer; † yaud-swiver, one who commits buggery with a mare.
| 1508 Dunbar Flyting 246 Muttoun dryver, girnall ryver, ȝadswyvar, fowll fell the. c 1560 Durham Depos. (Surtees) 60 And yett Ednam shuld still be his father yawd steiller. |
c. attrib. or adj. Of a horse: Worn out.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Petit. of Gray Horse 25 Poems lxi, Suppois I war ane ald ȝaid aver, Schott furth our clewch to pull the clever. |
† 2. A strumpet, whore. Comb. ȝaldson, the ‘son of a whore’; a term of abuse (cf. whoreson).
| a 1400 Morte Arth. 3809 Ȝondire to ȝone ȝaldsones he þat ȝeldes hyme ever,..Be he neuer mo sauede. 1545 Burgh Rec. Stirling (1887) 41 You leid that said Annapill Graheme wes ane freris get and freris yawde. |