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Deb vs Dey - What's the difference?

deb | dey |

As proper nouns the difference between deb and dey

is that deb is abbreviated form of the female given name deborah while dey is the tenth solar month of the persian calendar.

deb

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (informal) debutante

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    dey

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) deye, deie, daie, from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * daie, deie, deye

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The title given to the ruler of the (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
  • *1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 29:
  • *:the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.

    • Etymology 3

    Pronoun

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