deef

English

Adjective

deef (comparative more deef, superlative most deef)

  1. (obsolete or dialectal) deaf
    • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII
      Then the captain sung out "Stand away!" and the cannon let off such a blast right before me that it made me deef with the noise and pretty near blind with the smoke, and I judged I was gone.

Anagrams


Central Franconian

Alternative forms

  • deep (the traditional Ripuarian form, but archaic in many dialects)
  • dief (southern Moselle Franconian)

Etymology

From Old High German (*)diof, northern variant of tiof.

Pronunciation

Adjective

deef (masculine deefe, feminine deef, comparative deefer, superlative et' deefste)

  1. (Ripuarian, nothern Moselle Franconian) deep

Luxembourgish

Verb

deef

  1. second-person singular imperative of deefen

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English dēaf, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɛːf/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːf

Adjective

deef

  1. deaf (unable to hear)
Descendants

Scots

Alternative forms

Adjective

deef (comparative mair deef, superlative maist deef)

  1. deaf
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