Dayer vs Dayee - What's the difference?
dayer | dayee |
(in combination) Something lasting a specified number of days.
* 1992 , Louisville Automobile Club, American Automobile Association, Home & away in Kentucky (volumes 13-14, page 40)
* 1996 , Rayford Clayton Reddell, Full bloom: thoughts from an opinionated gardener (page 66)
(Australia, dated) An ellipsis of good day.
* 1955 , , Cake in the Hat Box ,
(rare, India) midwife
* 1855 , North-Western Provinces, India, Selections from the Records of Government , Volume 3,
As nouns the difference between dayer and dayee
is that dayer is something lasting a specified number of days while dayee is eye dialect of lang=en.As an interjection dayee is
An ellipsis of good day.dayer
English
Noun
(en noun)- I envy the Marilyn Fishers of the world who have the time — and the money — to embark on 45 cruises, the least of which a seven-dayer .
- Blossoms that flower atop willowy weedy stems such as forget-me-nots, delphiniums, and gauras should be thought of as two-dayers ; they don't draw water well or retain preservatives.
dayee
English
Etymology 1
Alternative forms
* day-eeNoun
(-)Interjection
(en interjection)page 4,
- “Good day ?Un!” he said to the yardman.
- “Day-ee', Jasper!” replied 'Un. “' Day-ee , Silas! How?s things?”
Synonyms
* g'dayEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)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.