dee

• de (Northumbria)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Variant of do.

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

1. (Northumbria) To do.

   What are ye deein man!

• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “dee”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “dee”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.

dee (plural dees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.
   • 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:

     I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

   • 2016, CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), pages 3–5:

     IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".

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.

   • 2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:53 from the start), in Kay Flock (lyrics), F L O C K A‎^[3]:

     Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah)
     If we see the Ds, bitch, move proper

• deejay
• ecks dee

• (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

• Ede

dee

1. (interrogative) when

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

• IPA^(key): [dẽ˦ẽ˨]

dee

1. child

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

dee

1. water

• W. McCulloch, Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill tribes with a comparative vocabulary of the Munnipore and other languages (1859, Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From 弟?”)

dee

1. (Cantonese, often in compounds) brother

   華dee／华dee [Cantonese]  ―  waa⁴ di^4-2 [Jyutping]  ―  a nickname, Brother Wah

2. (Cantonese, poker, especially in big two) the largest of the poker cards, i.e. 2 (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
3. (Cantonese, in compounds) big two

   dee王之王 [Cantonese]  ―  di^4-2 wong⁴ zi¹ wong⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  king of big two

Cognate with Dutch die.

dee

1. (relative) who, which, that

• deeje

Compare German denn.

dee

1. (Erzgebirgisch) (in a question, modal particle) then, ever, but, now (used for emphasis or to express interest, surprise or doubt, or in rhetorical questions)

• 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch‎^[4], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31:
• https://www.erzgebirgisch.de/d.dee_1.wort

dee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.

From Latin dē (“name of the letter D”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeː/, [ˈde̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Hyphenation^(key): dee

dee

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.

dee

1. day

• R. Blench, Comparative Ogonic

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.e/, (traditional) ^*/ˈdɛ.e/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛe
• Hyphenation: dè‧e

dee f

1. plural of dea

• debbe (archaic)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.e/, /ˈde.e/^[1][2]
• Rhymes: -ɛe, -ee
• Hyphenation: dè‧e, dé‧e

dee

1. (archaic, poetic or popular Tuscan) Alternative form of deve, third-person singular present indicative of dovere

dee

1. vocative singular of deus

From Latin deus.

• (Western, Milanese) IPA^(key): /deː/
• Hyphenation: dee

dee m (feminine deja, masculine plural dee, feminine plural deje) (New Lombard Orthography)

1. god, deity

   Synonym: dia

dee

1. first-person singular past of doon

• dy, di, dei, de, dey

From Old French dé, from Latin datum. Cognate with French dé.

• IPA^(key): /deː/, /diː/, /dæi̯/

dee (plural dees)

1. A die or dice (cube used in games and gambling)
2. A game which utilises or employs dice.
3. (rare) A piece or cube of diced food.
4. (rare) Something of little value.

• English: die; dice
• Scots: die; dice

• “dẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-17.

Middle English, from Old English dīġan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *dauwjan (“to die”).

Compare English die, Danish dø, Norwegian Nynorsk døy, Norwegian Bokmål dø, Icelandic deyja, Swedish dö, Faroese doyggja.

dee (third-person singular simple present dees, present participle deein, simple past dee'd, past participle dee'd)

1. to die
   • 1852-1859, Lady John Scott (lyrics and music), “Annie Laurie”, in Scottish Songs‎^[5]:

     Maxwelton braes are bonnie, / Where early fa's the dew, / And its there that Annie Laurie, / Gie'd me her promise true / Gie'd me her promise true, / Which ne'er forgot shall be, / And for bonnie Annie Laurie / I'd lay me doon and dee.

     Maxwelton hills are pretty, / Where early falls the dew, / And it's there that Annie Laurie, / Gave me her promise true / Gave me her promise true, / Which never forgot shall be, / And for pretty Annie Laurie / I'd lay myself down and die.

dee (third-person singular simple present dees, present participle deein, simple past dee'd, past participle dee'd)

1. Doric Scots form of dae (“to do”)

   Fit ye deein?

   What are you doing?

   • 1875, William Alexander, Sketches of Life Among My Ain Folk, page 51:

     "A twa-horse wark, maybe? or dee ye make it oot wi' ae beast an' an owse?"

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

dee

1. to carry

• Ulrike Mosel, The Teop sketch grammar

dee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /d̪eː/

dee

1. (intransitive) to arrive

   dee pe ― to arrive at

2. (intransitive) to reach
3. (intransitive) to be enough, sufficient

   idee yo ― it is not enough (literally, “it does not reach”)

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics

• IPA^(key): [deː]

dee

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) Alternative form of iye (“wood, tree”)

From Middle English deyen, from Old English *dīeġan, from Old Norse deyja, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwjan.

• IPA^(key): /diː/
• Homophone: die

dee (simple past deeth)

1. to die

• deed

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 33