Pronunciations (2)
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/zɛd/
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zɛd
Noun
The name of the Latin script letter Z/z.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Ireland
- Examples
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Zzz...With all those ʻzedsʼ I'll be sending you to sleep.
Something Z-shaped.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Ireland
- In compounds
- Examples
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zed-bar
Sleep.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Ireland
- Colloquial
- plural-normally
- Examples
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I'm going to go get some zeds.
A zombie.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Ireland
- Slang
- Examples
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A horde of zeds began to shuffle into the shopping mall.
Verb
To sleep or nap. (Compare zzz, catch some z's.)
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Ireland
- UK usage
- Informal
- Intransitive
- Examples
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Zedding hogs. Sleep sippers and spitters. Look at 'em cooking in their own snoring heat. One nose after another.
I guess I must have zedded, for I find a police officer, the same one that nicked me, shaking me.
More examples (1)
"Zedding away." "God, I was having the most awful dream. That you'd got lost by the sea and I couldn't find you and something was chasing me, me and Evie."
To zigzag; to move with sharp alternating turns.
Usage- Commonwealth usage
- Ireland
- UK usage
- Intransitive
- Rare
- Examples
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We were zedding hell-bells up the hill towards Cervione, with a bank of road metal and a precipice on our left...
Licking his lips, his hand zedded on my thigh and he commented, penetratingly, that it wasn't pussy, but that driving the unmade road wasn't at all bad.
Noun
the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet
- Broader terms
- Examples
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the British call Z zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it zee
he doesn't know A from izzard