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say it: pahyd
pied is an adjective meaning "having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly". It is pronounced /ˈpaɪd/ — pahyd. It carries one recorded sense.
having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly
“a jester dressed in motley”
“the painted desert”
“a particolored dress”
“a piebald horse”
“pied daisies”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pied come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.