dee

See also Dee, and -dę́ę́ʼ

English

Alternative forms

• de (Northumbria)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /diː/

Verb

dee (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle deein, simple past and past participle dyun)

1. (Northumbrian) To do.

   What are ye deein man!

References

• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ISBN 1904794165

Noun

dee (plural dees)

1. The name of the Latin script letter D/d.
2. Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.

   the pommel is furnished with dees.

3. (colloquial) Police detective.

   the dees are about.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee/zed ^{(Category: en:Latin letter names)}

Translations

name of the letter D, d

• Arabic: دي (ar) (dii) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists)

• Esperanto: do (eo)
• Hindi: डी (hi) (ḍī)
• Japanese: ディー (ja) (dī)
• Korean: 디 (ko) (di)
• Latin: dē (la)

• Malay: di (ms)
• Marathi: डी (mr) (ḍī)
• Portuguese: dê (pt) m
• Russian: ди (ru) (di) n  (English), дэ (ru) (de) n 
• Spanish: de (es) f
• Thai: ดี (th) (dee)
• Turkish: de (tr)
• Vietnamese: dê (vi), dờ (vi)

Derived terms

• deejay

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Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch die.

Pronoun

dee

1. (relative) who, which, that

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -eː

Noun

dee

1. The letter D, d.

Declension

Declension of dee (type maa) singular plural nominative dee deet genitive deen deiden deitten partitive deetä deitä accusative dee deen deet inessive deessä deissä elative deestä deistä illative deehen deihin adessive deellä deillä ablative deeltä deiltä allative deelle deille essive deenä deinä translative deeksi deiksi instructive – dein abessive deettä deittä comitative – deineen

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Italian

Noun

dee

1. Plural form of dea

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Scots

Verb

dee

1. to die
2. (Doric) to do

   Fit ye deein?