tardy
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Is tardy a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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- Wordle Yes
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What is the meaning of tardy?
Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Unwary; unready (especially in the phrase take (someone) tardy).Examples: "Be not ta’en tardy by unwise delay."; "Yield, Scoundrel base (quoth she) or die; / Thy life is mine, and liberty. / But if thou think’st I took thee tardy, / And dar’st presume to be so hardy, / To try thy fortune o’re afresh, / I’le wave my title to thy flesh,"obsolete
2. (obsolete) Criminal; guilty.Examples: "And the Franks served the Men much the same ſauce when they found them tardy, and made them run their Heats through the Streets"obsolete
noun (English)
1. (US) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.Examples: "The teacher gave her a tardy because she did not come into the classroom until after the bell."US
2. (US) An instance of a student's being marked as tardy by a teacher on the teacher's attendance sheet.US
verb (English)
1. (obsolete, transitive) To make tardy.Examples: "the good mind of Camillo tardied My swift command"obsoletetransitive
2. (rare, intransitive) To dawdle.Examples: "Sitting there on the rock behind the school, I heard nothing but the occasional raised voice of some youngster tardying on his way home, and the joints in the schoolhouse squeaking from the frost."intransitiverare
Definition source: Wiktionary