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did en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (form-of, past) simple past of do
    form of do
    • What did happen when the principal found out?
    • Jeez, did I make a mistake!
    • I never did like her much.
    • Monsieur Thuran became a frequent visitor at the home of Hazel Strong’s uncle in Cape Town. His attentions were very marked, but they were so punctiliously arranged to meet the girl’s every wish that she came to depend upon him more and more. Did she or her mother or a cousin require an escort—was there a little friendly service to be rendered, the genial and ubiquitous Monsieur Thuran was always available. 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 110:
    • Then ſhe with liquors ſtrong his eies did ſteepe, / That nothing ſhould him haſtily awake[…] 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 254:
  2. (Southern-US, especially, form-of, nonstandard, participle, past, qualifier:African-American Vernacular) past participle of do; done
    form of do
    • “Spanky—I mean, the exec, Mr. McFaarlane, say the number four gun has did for another cruiser, but they all gonna drown, aft, as much water as the screws is throwin' up!" 2014 May 6, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores, Penguin, →ISBN, page 288:
    • On my soul, this for my kids and the cold shit I done did 2022, Nas, “Legit”, in King's Disease III:
    • I should've did[…]Should've turned down, now I'm really on it. Should've, could've did. Would've could've did[…]Ooh, I should've did em in. 2013 June 12, “Shoulda Woulda” (track 16), in Project Baby, performed by Kodak Black:
    • We have to take this brutality. We haven't did anything. Why? 2010 October 10, Jeanette R Davidson, quoting Bea Jenkins, African American Studies, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 189:
    • […]But I don't care, I mean I don't even care. She shouldn't have did that." 2008 March 1, Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 140:

Deriveds

flooddidit · Satandidit · evolutiondidit · goddidit · FSMdidit · aliensdidit