whid

American  

[hwid, hwuhd, wid, wuhd] / ʰwɪd, ʰwʌd, wɪd, wʌd /

verb (used without object)

whidded, whidding

1. to move quickly and quietly.

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noun

1. a quick, noiseless movement.

Etymology

Origin of whid

1580–90; apparently akin to Old English hwitha a breeze (cognate with Old Norse hvitha gust)

Example Sentences

Some books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn’d: Ev’n ministers, they ha’e been kenn’d, In holy rapture, A rousing whid, at times, to vend, And nail’t wi’ Scripture.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert