Eat

EAT, v. Var. gram. forms and dial. uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng. [īt, iət, ēt, eit, eət, jīt, jet.] I. Gram. forms. 1. Present Tense: (1) Aet, (2) Ait, (3) Ate, (4) Ayt, (5) Ayth, (6) Eeat, (7) Eet, (8) Eht, (9) Eight, (10) Eit, (11) Et, (12) Eyt, (13) Hayt, (14) Height, (15) Heit, (16) Heyet, (17) Heyt, (18) Hit, (19) It, (20) Ite, (21) Itt, (22) Yeat, (23) Yet, (24) Yit, (25) Yut. (1) Sh.I. Doo... cutted aff da legs o' da hardest anes an' gae wis ta aet, Sh. News (July 17, 1897). (2) Glo. (E.D.) w.Som.1 Thick bwoy wid ait us out o' ouse and 'ome, let-n have it. Dev. Let ma beluvid kom inta es gearden, an ait es plesint vrewts, Baird Sng. Sol. (1860) iv. 16. (3) nw.Abd. John 'ill be like to ate himsel that he hasna won in, Goodwife (1867) st. 50. Lan.1 Canto ate this bread? Dev. Dev. grace: ‘Some's got mate that they can't ate, Some cude ate, but they've no mate, We've got mate, and stummicks t'ate, So let's be thankful for't' (W.W.S.). (4) Lan. Aytin a bit o' dumplin, Brierley Layrock (1864) iv. Dev. I ant ad. nuthin ta ayt ta-day, zur, Burnett Stable Boy (1888) ii. (5) Wxf.1 (6) Cum.1 (7) Nhb. Eet o' the breed, Robson Bk. Ruth (1860) ii. 14. s.Chs.1 Ee·t, 80. (8) ne.Sc. There wiz naither door nor window T' lat me in to eht, Gregor Flk-Lore (1881) 79. (9) Wxf.1 Lan. Summat t'eight, Clegg David's Loom (1894) ii. n.Lan. Let me belov'd come inta hiz garden, an eight hiz pleasant fruit, Phizackerley Sng. Sol. (1860) iv. 16. (10) Sc. Murray Dial. (1873) 204. w.Yks. Wright Gram. Wndhll. (1892) 36; Sum thinks at fowk at eits like Sal, Is far moar flayed nur hurt, Preston Poems (1864) 19; w.Yks.4 Der.1 Aey·t. (11) Oxf.1 ‘Et yer bread and smell yer cheese.’ Said when the piece of bread is very large and the cheese very small, MS. add. Brks.1 A' wunt et nothin'. (12) w.Yks. My missis wor a bit of a screw, an' cud hardly thoil me enuff to eyt, Cudworth Dial. Sketches (1884) 15. e.Lan.1, m.Lan.1 (13) n.Dev. Doo hayt if 'e be ibble, Rock Jim an' Nell (1867) st. 15. (14) w.Yks. Findin stuff ta height for all them chaps, Rogers Nan Bunt (1839) 19. Lan. Th' owd chap's horse that geet fat wi' heightin i' th' neet-time, Waugh Sneck-Bant, ii. (15) w.Yks. Where are we to get summat to heit, thinks ta? Bywater Sheffield Dial. (1839) III. (16) Lan. Aw wish tha had to heyet bones, too, tha greight glutton, Wood Hum. Sketches 16. (17) Yks. A man mud as weel heyt the divil as the broth at he's boiled in, Holroyd Prov. an' Speyks. Lan. They made him heyt his neet-cap, Waugh Snowed-up, iii; Yo met nevvur o had naut to heyte ov o day, Ormerod Felley fro Rachde (1864) i. (18) w.Yks. It's a job to git summat ta hit, Lucas Stud. Nidderdale (c. 1882) Gl. Lan. Moll Eves was to steeal a red-herrin'... which she was ta hit, Eavesdropper Vill. Life (1869) 9. (19) Wm. Left t'kye naarly a heeal dae wioot a bite a owt ta it, Spec. Dial. (1885) pt. iii. 6. e.Yks.1 (20) Der. Ite, mon, ite! Howitt Rur. Life (1838) I. 150. (21) w.Yks. I've plenty to itt, an' to drink, Twisleton Poems (1867) Sng. of Old Maid; w.Yks.1 (22) Lan. Oi've nowt for t' yeat, Gaskell M. Barton (1848) iv. sw.Lin.1 Bring the brambles hoëm, but don't yeät a many. (23) Glo. A man as can cook ers own vittles, and yet 'em too, Buckman Darke's Sojourn (1890) xvii; Glo.1, Brks.1 Wil. Our grammer used to zay yettin' too much was wus than drenkin' too much, Akerman Spring-tide (1850) 58. (24) m.Yks.1 Yi·ht, Introd. 34. w.Yks. Lucas Stud. Nidderdale (c. 1882) 292. (25) se.Wor.1 'Er caunt yut nuthin'; un we knaows uf 'er caunt yut 'er fittle, there must be summut wrong. 2. Pret. (1) Ait, (2) At, (3) Ayth, (4) Eated, (5) Eaten, (6) Eet, (7) Et, (8) Ete, (9) Etted, (10) Üit, (11) Yatt, (12) Yet, (13) Yetted, (14) Yit. (1) Sc. Murray Dial. (1873) 204. w.Som. Elworthy Gram. (1877) 46. (2) Wxf.1 Ich at mee dhree meales [I ate my three meals]. (3) Wxf.1 (4) Slk. He houghed the calf and eated the cow, Hogg Poems (ed. 1865) 160. (5) War.2 I eaten th' opple. (6) Lan.1 Aw eet [or et] what thae gan mi. e.Lan.1 (7) Lan.1 s.Chs.1 80. War.2 I et th' cake. Shr.1 Introd. 52. (8) Chs.1 Shr.1 The baӯly ete it fur 'is supper las' night. (9) Brks.1 (10) Sh.I. Doo... cutted aff da legs o' da hardest anes... an' üit dem dysel, Sh. News (July 17, 1897). (11) Wm. They yatt ther meat, an drank ther drink, Wheeler Dial. (1790) III, ed. 1821. (12) m.Yks.1 Ye·ht, Yet·, Introd. 34. (13) Brks.1 (14) m.Yks.1 Yit·. 3. pp. (1) Aeten, (2) Aten, (3) Eetn, (4) Eiten, (5) Et, (6) Ete, (7) Etten, (8) Etn, (9) Eyte, (10) Hetten, (11) Itten, (12) Yeat, (13) Yet, Yett, (14) Yetted, (15) Yetten, (16) Yitten, (17) Yut, (18) U-ait. (1) Sh.I. A'm no sayin' but a'm aeten hoes mony a time, Sh. News (July 17, 1897). (2) Sus. I don't look at what he hath aten, Blackmore Springhaven (1886) vi. (3) Lan.1 (4) Sc. Murray Dial. (1873) 204. (5) War.2 (6) Shr.1 Introd. 52. (7) w.Yks. I'd etten ivery morsel up’ att’ owd lass putaht, Cudworth Dial. Sketches (1884) 15; w.Yks.2 w.Yks.3 Lan. Awve etten my honeycom wi' my honey, Staton Sng. Sol. (1859) V. I; Lan.1 He's etten o' the lot. e.Lan.1, Chs.1 (8) w.Yks. Wright Gram. Wndhll. (1892) 33. s.Chs.1 Et·n, 80. (9) e.Dev. Ai've eyte my honeycwome wi' my honey, Pulman Sng. Sol. (1860) v. i. (10) w.Yks. Thah's hetten all that tommy, Bywater Sheffield Dial. (1877) 224. Lan. Aw no noshun o bein hetten wi bulljoans un jacksharps, Ormerod Felley fro Rachde (1864) ii. (11) Wm. I've itt'n my hūneycooam’ wi' my hūney, Richardson Sng. Sol. (1860) v. i. e.Yks.1 w.Yks. Ye've itten an' ye've liquored, Jabez Oliphant (1870) bk. I. v; w.Yks.1 Shoe's nut itten hauf' t'book o' my kneeaf sin Monday cum a sennight, ii. 291. (12) n.Wil. I've a yeat my honey-cwoämb wi' my honey, Kite Sng. Sol. (1860) v. i. Som. I have yeät moi honey-quom, wi' moi honey, Baynes Sng. Sol. (13) I.W. How be um to bury he, if so be as he's yet by a elephant? Gray Annesley (1889) I. iii. n.Dor. (S.S.B.) (14) Brks.1 I ent a-yetted nothun' zence isterdaay marnin'. (15) m.Yks.1 Yet·u'n, Introd. 34. (16) m.Yks.1 Yit·u'n. (17) Glo. The liuns aint a-yut me up, Roger Plowman, 59. (18) w.Som.1 Uur aa-n u-ai·t noa·urt zúnz uur ai·t dhai dhae·ur tae·udeez [She has not eaten anything since she ate those potatoes]. II. Dial. uses. 1. In phr. (1) to eat out, (a) to corrode, eat away with rust; (b) of land: to absorb, swallow up; (c) fig. to supplant by underhand means; (d) coal-mining term: used when a level coal-drift is turned to the ‘dip,’ in order to take advantage of a ‘rise hitch’; (2) eat up, to be severely afflicted with a disease; (3) eat the calf in the cow's belly, to forestall; to obtain money in anticipation of earnings; (4) eat oneself, to be very much vexed or annoyed; (5) eat porridge, to live, dwell, reside; (6) eaten and spued, used contemptuously of an unhealthy, dyspeptic person. (1, a) w.Som.1 I've a vound one o' the knives a drow'd out way the rummage, and now he's all a ate out way rist. (b) w.Som.1 Ter'ble field o' ground 'bout aitin out o' dressin ─ 'tis a-go in no time. (c) w.Yks. Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Jan. 15, 1893); w.Yks.1 (d) Nhb.1 Nhb., Dur. Greenwell Coal Tr. Gl. (1849). (2) Sus.1 I was quite entirely eat up with the rheumatics (s.v. Byste). (3) w.Som.1 I never don't like vor to draw no money avore I've a sar'd it, I zim 'tis aitin the calve in the cow's belly. nw.Dev.1 (4) nw.Abd. John 'ill be like to ate himsel, that he hasna won in, Goodwife (1867) st. 50. (5) Lan. He should want Jammie to goo a-livin wi' him when he'd done atin porritch here, Brierley Marlocks (1867) 30. (6) Sc. True, Johnnie, 'eve lost Moff, but what needs 'e tae look sae etten an' spued ower't? Tweeddale Moff (1896) 213. Ayr. The Reverend Mr. Godsneuaffs, a kin' o' eaten and spued leukin body, Service Notandums (1890) 26. 2. Comp. Eat-meat, one who is idle and lives on others. Abd. Having previously had one or two of her sons at hame during the winter season. ‘Mere ate-meats till Can'lesmas. I'm seer fowk hae's little need o' that,’ Alexander Ain Flk. (1882) 212. 3. intr. To taste when eaten. s.Not. Them apples eats a sight better nor they look (J.P.K.). w.Mid. Good meat is sure to eat well if it is hung long enough. ‘Eat short,’ of food, to be easily masticated. ‘The mutton eats very short and nice’ (W.P.M.). [Amer. Of wood-chuck: ‘It eats like bar’ (bear), Dial. Notes (1896) I. 371.] Hence Eat, sb. taste, the act of eating or tasting. n.Sc. It is said a thing is ‘gude to the eat,’ when it is grateful to the taste (Jam.). 4. To drink. w.Yks.2 People speak of water for ‘aitin’ instead of for drinking. Hence Eating-water, sb. water fit for drinking; drinking water. w.Yks.3 Chs.1; Chs.3 In contradistinction to carry water, some of which is only fit for swilling purposes. s.Chs.1 Ee·tin wai·tŭr.

EAT, v. and sb. Sc. Yks. Dev. Also in form ait Abd.

1. v. In phr. (1) to be fit to eat one, to be very angry; (2) to eat or be eaten out of ply, see below. (1) n.Yks. (I.W.) (2) Sc. Hislop Anecdote (1874) 307. Gall. Some animals are said to be aten out o' ply when they are extremely lean in flesh, although they have been taking a great deal of food. Thus few gourmands are very fat, they eat themselves out of ply; that is to say, over-do themselves with eating, Mactaggart Encycl. (1824) 22, ed. 1876.
2. To taste when eaten. n.Yks. (I.W.) 3. To harass, worry. n.Yks. It eats me like canker (T.S.).
3. sb. A ‘feed,’ feast. Also in form eating. Abd. Aw ferly like a ait o' berries aff th' busses, Abd. Wkly. Free Press (Aug. 22, 1903). Dev. Phillpotts Good Red Earth (1901) 40.