deef
English
Adjective
deef (comparative more deef, superlative most deef)
- (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.
- 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII
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 deef, comparative deefer, superlative et' deefste)
- (Ripuarian, nothern Moselle Franconian) deep
Luxembourgish
Verb
deef
- second-person singular imperative of deefen
Middle English
Alternative forms
- def
Etymology
From Old English dēaf, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛːf/
- Rhymes: -ɛːf
Adjective
deef
- deaf (unable to hear)
Descendants
- English: deaf
- Scots: deef, deif, deaf
Scots
Alternative forms
- deif
Adjective
deef (comparative mair deef, superlative maist deef)
- deaf