eediot

plural eediots

1. nonstandardpronunciation spellingPronunciation spelling of idiot

   “He was a eediot—a great, awful, monster eediot.”

   1911, Jack London, “Samuel”, in The Strength of the Strong

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   Stevison's last book 's in a third edeetion; an' it's bein' translated (like the psaulms of David, nae less) into French; and an eediot they ca' Asher — a kind o' rival of Tauchnitz — is bringin' him oot in a paper book for the Frenchies and the German folk in twa volumes.

   1883 January 12, Robert Louis Stevenson, Letter to Charles Baxter, Thomson

   “He was a eediot, a lunatuc. I wouldna have hum on the brudge a munut.”

   1911, Jack London, “The Sea-Farmer”, in The Strength of the Strong