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  1. A quick motion; a rapid, noiseless movement. [Scots.] And jinkin' hares, in amorous whids, Their loves enjoy. Burns, To W. Simpson.
  2. To whisk; scud; move nimbly, as a hare or other small animal. Ye maukins whiddin thro' the glade. Burns, Elegy on Capt. Matthew Henderson. That creature whids about frae place to place, like a hen on a het girdle. Saxon and Gael, III. 104. (Jamieson.)
  3. To fib; lie. [Scotch in both uses.]
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  1. Scots also quhid, quhyd; cf. Welsh chwid, a quick turn, chwido, jerk. Cf. also Anglo-Saxon hwitha, a breeze, = Icelandic hwidha, a puff.
  2. Cf. whid, n.
  3. Perhaps a dial. form, ult. from Anglo-Saxon cwide, a saying, from cwethan, say: see quethe.
  4. from wind, n.
 

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