▪ I. wid
(wɪd)
repr. colloq. and dial. pronunc. of with prep.
[See with prep. for pre-16th cent. examples.]
| 1869 S. H. Bradford Scenes in Life Harriet Tubman 26 Jesus will go wid you. 1884 D. Boucicault Shaugraun i. i. 3 Never fear, I'll be even wid your honour yet. 1895 Baines & Smiley in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 256/2 You an' I was sittin' at de table wid but one dish ob soup. 1897 Kipling Capt. Cour. iii. 77 We do be condescending to honour the second half wid our presence. 1935 [see Jack n.1 2 e]. 1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned xii. 106 What's up wid yuh now? 1978 J. Irving World according to Garp xix. 432 She didda lot for people wid complicated lives. |
▪ II. wid
see wade v., wed v., wide, wight, with, wood n. and a.