lid

Etymology

From Old English hlid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą (compare Dutch lid, German Lid (“eyelid”), Swedish lid (“gate”)), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlíto (“post, trimmed log”) (compare Old Norse hlíð (“slope”), Welsh clwyd (“gate, hurdle”), Latin clitellae (“pack saddle”), Lithuanian šlìtė (“ladder”), pã-šlitas (“curved”), Russian калитка (kalitka, “gate”), Ancient Greek ἄκλιτος (áklitos, “stable”), δικλίς (diklís, “double-posted (doors, gates)”), Yazghulami xad 'ladder', Sanskrit श्रित (śrita, “standing on, lying on, being on, fixed on, situated in”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱley- (“to lean”). More at lean.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪd/

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• Rhymes: -ɪd

Noun

lid (plural lids)

1. The top or cover of a container.
2. (slang) A cap or hat.
   • 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XII, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 1227855:

     “Yes, sir, if that was the language of love, I'll eat my hat,” said the blood relation, alluding, I took it, to the beastly straw contraption in which she does her gardening, concerning which I can only say that it is almost as foul as Uncle Tom's Sherlock Holmes deerstalker, which has frightened more crows than any other lid in Worcestershire.

3. (slang) One ounce of cannabis.
4. (surfing, slang, chiefly Australia) A bodyboard or bodyboarder.
   • 2001, realsurf.com message board

     Mal rider, shortboard or lid everyone surfs like a kook sometimes.

   • 2003 August, Kneelo Knews

     the rest of us managed to dodge out of control lid riders

5. (slang) A motorcyclist's crash helmet.
6. (slang) In amateur radio, an incompetent operator.
7. Clipping of eyelid.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter III, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:

     Long after his cigar burnt bitter, he sat with eyes fixed on the blaze. When the flames at last began to flicker and subside, his lids fluttered, then drooped ; but he had lost all reckoning of time when he opened them again to find Miss Erroll in furs and ball-gown kneeling on the hearth […].

Verb

lid (third-person singular simple present lids, present participle lidding, simple past and past participle lidded)

1. To put a lid on something.

Anagrams

• DIL, DLI, IDL

Pronunciation

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Noun

lid m

1. people

Further reading

• lid in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• lid in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Etymology

From Old Norse hlít.

Noun

lid c (singular definite liden, not used in plural form)

1. trust

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lide

Further reading

• “lid” in Den Danske Ordbog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɪt/
• Rhymes: -ɪt

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Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lit, let, leet, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *liþuz.

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lit, let, from Old Dutch *lid, from Proto-Germanic *hlidą.

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lide

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *liþ-, whence also Old English liþ and Old Norse liðr.

Noun

lid ?

1. member

Etymology

From Old Spanish, from Latin lītem, singular accusative of līs (“strife, dispute, quarrel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lid/, [lið]
• Rhymes: -ið

Noun

lid f (plural lides)

1. lawsuit
2. fight

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -iːd

Verb

lid

1. imperative of lida.

Etymology

From German Lied.

Noun

lid (plural lids)

1. song

Noun

lid

1. Soft mutation of llid.

Alternative forms

• li
• löyd

Etymology

From Old Norse hlíð, from Proto-Germanic *hlīþō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /liː/, /lʏɪ̯ːd/

  Rhymes: -íːð

  (ð-dropping) Rhymes: -íː, -íːð

  (í-ý merger) Rhymes: -íːð, -ýːð

Noun

lid f (definite singular lia or lida, dative lin)

1. mountain side, wooded slope of a mountain or summit^[1]

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