▪ I. stiddy, adv. E. Angl. dial.
(ˈstɪdɪ)
[f. stead n.]
Instead (of).
| 1946 J. W. Day Harvest Adventure iv. 57 If they'd left the rabbits to the workin' man we'd ha' had 'em in our bellies stiddy of the poor things suffocatin' in their burrows. 1971 Country Life 11 Mar. 533/1 Owd Bob, he cut a slice or tew out of it [a stranded sturgeon] with a hatchet an' all the roe runned away. That's where he done wrong. If we'd a-kept that roe in we'd a-got four bob a pound for it... Stiddy o' that we only got fi'pun from the fishmonger in Ely. |
▪ II. stiddy
var. form of stithy, anvil.