Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A saying, song, or story.
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Examples
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Bit I thawt, a-mâ-be, you mid be angry wi 'my country lidden.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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She kept up this lidden all through breakfast, and the meal was no sooner cleared away than she slipped on a shawl and stepped across to the churchyard to discuss the robbery.
News from the Duchy Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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"So, me hearties, ye'll have to take the will for the dade, an 'this little lidden messenger, avic, to show as how we aren't onmindful av ye, sure, an' that there's no ill falin 'atwane us!"
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874
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One comes threatenin ', t'other comes carneyin', but all endin 'in the same lidden. [
Nicky-Nan, Reservist Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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