deef
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
deef (comparative more deef, superlative most deef)
- (obsolete or dialectal) deaf
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:
- 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[edit]
Central Franconian[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- deep (the traditional Ripuarian form, but archaic in many dialects)
- dief (southern Moselle Franconian)
Etymology[edit]
From Old High German (*)diof, northern variant of tiof.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
deef (masculine deefe, feminine and plural deefe or deef, comparative deefer, superlative et deefste)
- (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) deep
Luxembourgish[edit]
Verb[edit]
deef
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English dēaf.
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
deef
- deaf (unable to hear)
Descendants[edit]
Scots[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English deaf, from Old English dēaf.
Adjective[edit]
deef (comparative mair deef, superlative maist deef)
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