deef
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
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.
Etymology 2
altered from the first syllable of diphenhydramine
Verb
deef (third-person singular simple present deefs, present participle deefing, simple past and past participle deefed)
- (Internet slang) use diphenhydramine recreationally.
Anagrams
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
Adjective
deef (masculine deefe, feminine and plural deefe or deef, comparative deefer, superlative et deefste)
- (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) deep
Luxembourgish
Verb
deef
- second-person singular imperative of deefen
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English dēaf.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɛːf/
- Rhymes: -ɛːf
Adjective
deef
- deaf (unable to hear)
Descendants
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English deaf, from Old English dēaf.