adee

adee

1. Northern Scots form of adae

adee (plural adees)

1. Northern Scots form of adae

• “adee”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Irish háidí.

• IPA^(key): /ɔːˈdiː/ (as if spelled ádee)

adee

1. ha!
   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 100:

     Adee! well zide, stuggoone, an thee raste o' graabache.

     Ha! well said, (with thy) bad bread, and thy rest of garbage.

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 22