perdie

Related to perdie: Perdiem, perdue

perdie

(ˌpɜːˈdiː)
adv
certainly; indeed
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The knave turns fool that runs away; The fool no knave, perdie. (2.4.82-85) The third line of this quatrain is a much-discussed textual crux, and various emendations have been suggested.
As Fred and his friends Cabbit the Rabbit, Tator the Gator, and Perdie the Birdie searched for the missing steer, they discovered more than they ever imagined.
The Spanish tattoo reads, "Mi madre Dio A luz A una luna Y que no me conocen lo perdiE," which in English means, "My mother gave birth to a moon and they don't know me and it's their loss."
Radio Shabelle pagE un precio muy caro: perdiE a tres directores y a cuatro periodistas.
Running a business from home means she can balance her life bringing up Wilson, three, and seven-month-old Perdie.
Both have partners, Perdie more than one, so it seems unfair that they can and aren't bothered whereas I can't and want to.
In Piers's speech following and reproving Palinode, stricter groups of two and four lines create a structural contrast: Perdie so farre am I from envie, That their fondnesse inly I pitie.
In its very rudeness (which begins with the poem's opening line: "Perdie, I said it not"), this disposition is part of what makes Wyatt's lyrics courtly in the original sense of that term--lyrics showing the abrasions of life at court, of frequent close encounters within a small circuit.
The Bulls director of football did, however, give some hope to Rob Perdie and Rob Sawyers, who deputised successfully for the pair, that they might retain their places.
This year's team of Keri Hopkins,15, from Clydach, rid-ing Dancer, Victoria Jones,14, from Clydach, riding Rosie, Natalie Gill,14, from Port Talbot, riding Perdie, Rob Price,14, from Ystradgynlais, riding Nutkin and Jemma Walters,11, from Crynant, rid-ing Dancer.