breede

breede (plural breedes)

1. Archaic spelling of breed.

breede (third-person singular simple present breedes, present participle breeding, simple past and past participle breeded or bredde)

1. Archaic spelling of breed.

• beered, berede

breede

1. Alternative form of brede (“breadth”)

breede

1. Alternative form of bred (“bread”)

breede

1. Alternative form of breden (“to breed”)

From Middle English bride, from Old English brȳd, from Proto-West Germanic *brūdi (“bride”).

• IPA^(key): /bɾiːd/
• Homophone: breed

breede (plural brides)

1. bride

   Coordinate term: breedegroom

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:

     Wee aar lhaung vlealès an pikkès, to waaite apan a breede.

     With their long flails and picks, to wait upon the bride.

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 4, page 96:

     Drink a heall to a breede. "Shud with, a voorneen."

     Drink a health to the bride, "Here's to you, my dear."

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

     Thou ne'er eighthest buskès, whit palskès, breede-kaake.

     Thou never eatedst spiced bread, white palskes, (or) bride-cake.

• breede-kaake

• 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 28