Deers vs Deems - What's the difference?
deers | deems |
(dated, or, nonstandard)
* 1984 , Justin Wilson, Howard Jacobs, More Cajun Humor ,
* 2001 , William Arnett, Emmer Sewell'', Paul Arnett, William Arnett (editors), ''Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South , Volume 2,
* 2006 , Phil Bowie, Guns ,
(deem)
(obsolete) To judge; pass judgement on; sentence; doom.
(obsolete) To adjudge; decree.
(obsolete) To dispense (justice); administer (law).
(ambitransitive) To think, judge, or hold as an opinion; decide or believe on consideration; suppose.
* Emerson
To hold in belief or estimation; adjudge as a conclusion; regard as being; evaluate according to one's beliefs; account.
To have or hold as a (personal) opinion; judge; think.
As a noun deers
is plural of lang=en.As an acronym DEERS
is Defense Enrollment and Eligibility Reporting System.As a verb deems is
third-person singular of deem.deers
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Noun
(head)page 79,
- “Not dem kinda deers , dese de kine wit? antling.”
- She say, “I?m goin? witcha.”
- He say, “I'll be damned, iss not?ing but a dirty ol? men's camp an? you can?t go.”
- Well, she bawled an? squalled and raise some sand, but he went to hont dem deers .
page 191,
- “They there to scare the deers' away from the garden. ' Deers , they slip in here at night and make a mess eating up things,” she says.
page 296,
- “I thought he used to be a hunter or something,” Hardin said.
- “If you call shooting deers in some kind of deer zoo great sport,” Sarah said.
Usage notes
Modern usage is likely to be regarded as an error or indicative of nonstandard speech. The standard (irregular) plural is deer. Occasionally used in the sense of more than one species, especially when appearing in combination (such as red deer / red deers).Anagrams
* * * *deems
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----deem
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Verb
(en verb)- And deemest thou as those who pore, / With aged eyes, short way before?
- She deemed his efforts insufficient.