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Deef vs Meef - What's the difference?

deef | meef |

As an adjective deef

is (obsolete|or|dialectal) deaf.

As an interjection meef is

a cry of strangled surprise or confusion.

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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    meef

    English

    Interjection

    (en interjection)
  • A cry of strangled surprise or confusion.
  • * 1994, Don Blaheta, in rec.games.abstract [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.abstract/msg/507f9cb8139f0115?dmode=source&hl=en]
    • Also, I'd like NOMIC rules. Someone said they had already been posted here, but I don't see them. Meef.
  • * 1999, Adrian Kleinbergen, in alt.nosebeeping [http://groups.google.com/group/alt.nosebeeping/msg/97636dbad3fe4410?dmode=source&hl=en]
    • Whenever I beep my wife's nose, she says "meef! "
  • * 2009, Derek Scott
    • Hans, your wedding cake will look lovely with a touch of "meef! "

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