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nounverbtop 1 000 in film dialogue

  • United States//meɪd//
  • Ireland//meːd//
  • Scotland//med//
  • //meːd//
  • //meɪd//

A grub or maggot.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteA grub or maggot.

Etymology

From Middle English mathe, from Old English maþu, maþa (“maggot, worm, grub”), from Proto-Germanic *maþô (“maggot”), from Proto-Indo-European *mot- (“worm, grub, caterpillar, moth”). Cognate with Scots mathe, maithe (“maggot”), Dutch made (“maggot”), German Made (“maggot”). More at maggot.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of makesimple past and past participle of make

  2. 2

    Also a form of myeksimple past and past participle of myek

  3. 3

    Also a form of maksimple past and past participle of mak

Etymology

From Middle English made, makede, makode (preterite) and maad, mad, maked (past participle), from Old English macode (first and third person preterite) and macod, gemacode, ġemacod (past participle), from macian (“to make”). More at make.

Forms

plural
mades
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).