jade

adj

Etymology: Borrowed from French le jade, rebracketing of earlier l'éjade (“jade”), from Spanish piedra de ijada (“flank stone”), via Vulgar Latin *iliata from Latin ilia (“flank”). (Jade was thought to cure pains in the side.)

1. Of a grayish shade of green, typical of jade stones.

name

1. A surname

noun

Etymology: From Middle English jade, chade, either a variant of yaud or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha эльде (elde) or Erzya эльде (elde). See yaud for more.

1. A horse too old to be put to work.

   “Shee hath more qualities then a Water-Spaniell, […] Shee can fetch and carry: why a horſe can doe no more; nay, a horſe cannot fetch, but onely carry, therefore is ſhee better then a Iade.”

   “That Iade hath eate bread from my Royall hand. / This hand hath made him proud with clapping him.”

2. A bad-tempered or disreputable woman.

   “You alwayes end with a iades tricke, I knowe you of olde.”

   “However, what ſhe withheld from the Infant, ſhe beſtowed with the utmoſt Profuſeneſs on the poor unknown Mother, whom ſhe called an impudent Slut, a wanton Huſſy, an audacious Harlot, a wicked Jade, a vile Strumpet, with every other Appellation with which the Tongue of Virtue never fails to laſh thoſe who bring a Diſgrace on the Sex.”

verb

Etymology: From Middle English jade, chade, either a variant of yaud or merely influenced by it. Yaud derives from Old Norse jalda (“mare”), from a Uralic language, such as Moksha эльде (elde) or Erzya эльде (elde). See yaud for more.

1. To fatigue, tire, or weary (someone or something).

   “[T]he Mind once jaded by an attempt above its Power, it either is diſabl'd for the future, or elſe checks at any vigorous Undertaking ever after, at leaſt is very hardly brought to exert its Force again on any Subject that requires Thought and Meditation.”

2. To treat (someone or something) like a jade; to spurn.

   “The nere-yet beaten Horſe of Parthia, / We haue iaded out o'th' Field.”

3. To make (someone or something) contemptible and ridiculous.

   “I do not now foole my ſelfe, to let imagination iade mee; for euery reaſon excites to this, that my Lady loues me.”