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zombola
06-25-2015, 11:12 AM
betide


\ bih-TAHYD \ , verb;

1.
To happen to; come to; befall.

2.
To happen; come to pass.



Quotes:
"Ill luck betide thee, poor damsel," said Sancho, "ill luck betide thee!"
-- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

"The girls' skirts are measured each week with a dressmaker's rule," she would say, "to see that they conform to the length prescribed. Woe betide any girl whose skirt does not."
-- Hilary Mantel, An Experiment in Love



Origin:
Betide stems from the Old English word tide meaning "something that happened." As in besot and belabor , the prefix be- turns the noun into a verb.