waylaid
English
Alternative forms
- waylayed (nonstandard)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌweɪˈleɪd/
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Verb
waylaid
- simple past tense and past participle of waylay
- c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene ii]:
- I have a jest to execute that I cannot manage
alone. Falstaff, Bardolph, Peto, and Gadshill shall rob
those men that we have already 'waylaid – yourself and I
will not be there. And when they have the booty, if you
and I do not rob them – cut this head off from my
shoulders.
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 20, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, OCLC 3174108:
- My beloved reader has no doubt in the course of his experience been waylaid by many such a luckless companion
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