• IPA^(key): /leɪd/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd

laid

1. simple past and past participle of lay
2. (colloquial) simple past and past participle of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)

   Synonyms: (simple past) lay, (past participle) lain

• get laid
• laid rope

laid (not comparable)

1. (of paper) Marked with parallel lines, as if ribbed, from wires in the mould.

• creamlaid
• deep-laid
• well-laid

• Dail, Dali, Dalí, Dial, dali, dial, dial.

From Proto-Finnic *laita, from Proto-Germanic *laidō. Compare Old Norse leið. Cognate to Finnish laita.

laid (genitive laia, partitive laida)

1. width (of cloth)
2. plank on the side of a boat.
3. side of a boat.
4. board, starboard

From Proto-Finnic *laito, possibly from Proto-Baltic *slaid-. Compare Lithuanian šlaitas (“hillside”). Cognate to Finnish laito. Alternatively from Proto-Germanic *laidō.

laid (genitive laiu, partitive laidu)

1. islet, holm

From Middle French laid (“hideous, ugly”), from Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”), from Vulgar Latin *laitus (“unpleasant, ugly”), from Frankish *laiþ (“unpleasant, obstinate, odious”), from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz (“sorrowful, unpleasant”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“unpleasant”).

Akin to Old High German leid (“unpleasant, odious”) (German leid (“unfortunate”), Leid (“grief”)), Old Norse leiþr (“odious”), Old English lāþ (“unpleasant, odious”), Catalan lleig (“ugly”), Occitan lag (“ugly”). More at loath.

• IPA^(key): /lɛ/

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• Homophones: lai, laids, lais, lait, laits (general), legs (dated)

laid (feminine laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)

1. physically ugly

   Synonyms: moche, vilain

2. morally corrupt

• jolie laide
• laid comme les sept péchés capitaux
• laid comme un pou

• “laid”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French lait (feminine laide).

laid m (feminine singular laide, masculine plural laids, feminine plural laides)

1. ugly
   • 1546, Philippe de Commine, Cronique et histoire faicte et composee par feu messire Philippe de Commines ... Contenant les choses advenues durant le regne du Roy Loys unziesme, & Charles huictiesme son filz, tant en France, Bourgongne, Flandres, Arthois, Angleterre, & Italie, que Espaigne & lieux circonuoysins, page 43:

     Le Roy de Castille estoit laid, et ses habillemens desplaisans aux François, qui s'en moquerent.

     The king of Castille was ugly, and his clothing unpleasant to the French, who made fun of it.

• French: laid

From Old French laid, leid (“unpleasant, horrible, odious”).

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laid m

1. (Jersey) ugly

   Bouonne femme n'est janmais laie. ― A nice woman is never ugly.

   Janmais vaque n'a trouvé san vieau laid. ― A cow never found her calf ugly.

• laid coumme lé péché du Dînmanche (“ugly as sin”, literally “ugly as a Sunday sin”)
• laidi (“become ugly, turn ugly”)
• s'laidi (“get ugly, turn ugly”)
• laiduthe, laideune (“ugly character, good-for-nothing”)

laid

1. Soft mutation of llaid.