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Dayes vs Dayee - What's the difference?

dayes | dayee |

As nouns the difference between dayes and dayee

is that dayes is plural of lang=en while dayee is eye dialect of lang=en.

As an interjection dayee is

An ellipsis of good day.

dayes

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    dayee

    English

    Etymology 1

    Alternative forms

    * day-ee

    Noun

    (-)

    • Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • (Australia, dated) An ellipsis of good day.
  • * 1955 , , Cake in the Hat Box , page 4,
    • “Good day ?Un!” he said to the yardman.
    “Day-ee', Jasper!” replied 'Un. “' Day-ee , Silas! How?s things?”
    Synonyms
    * g'day

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare, India) midwife
  • * 1855 , North-Western Provinces, India, Selections from the Records of Government , Volume 3, page 184,
    • The custom now actually and thoroughly established, and daily practised in these villages, is the following : — On the occasion of a birth in a Thakoor family, the village dayee is summoned, and after her services have been completed, she reports the occurrence to her relative, the bullahur ; he informs the chowkeedar, who causes the necessary entry to be made in the putwaree?s diary, and, if the birth be of a girl, reports the event to the thannah.