deef

English

Adjective

deef (comparative more deef, superlative most deef)

1. (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.

2. (Internet slang) use diphenhydramine recreationally.

Anagrams

• e-fed, feed

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

• IPA^(key): /deːf/
• Homophone: Deev

Adjective

deef (masculine deefe, feminine and plural deefe or deef, comparative deefer, superlative et deefste)

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) deep

Luxembourgish

Verb

deef

1. second-person singular imperative of deefen

Middle English

Alternative forms

• def

Etymology

From Old English dēaf.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɛːf/
• Rhymes: -ɛːf

Adjective

deef

1. deaf (unable to hear)

Descendants

• English: deaf
• Scots: deef, deif, deaf

Scots

Alternative forms

• deif

Etymology

From Middle English deaf, from Old English dēaf.

Adjective

deef (comparative mair deef, superlative maist deef)

1. deaf