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Dee vs Deef - What's the difference?

dee | deef |

As a noun dee

is .

As an adjective deef is

(obsolete|or|dialectal) deaf.

dee

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A river in Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
  • A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
  • A female given name, short for names beginning with a "D".

    • Quotations

    * : IV: xi: 39: *: And following Dee , which Britons long ygone *: Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend;

    Derived terms

    * Deeside * Miller of Dee

    See also

    * English diminutives of female given names ----

    deef

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (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.
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