Bey vs Dey - What's the difference?
bey | dey |
A governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg.
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 512:
* 2005 , Jon Courtenay Grimwood, Pashazade , p. 15:
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’.
As nouns the difference between bey and dey
is that bey is a governor of a province or district in the Turkish dominions; also, in some places, a prince or nobleman; a beg while dey is a servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.As a pronoun dey is
eye dialect of from=African American Vernacular English lang=en.As a proper noun Dey is
the tenth solar month of the Persian calendar.bey
English
Noun
(en noun)- She was chaperoned by the widow of a Bey whose son had been at Oxford with him, and this gave him the excuse to exchange a few words with her, and then to be presented to the Princess.
- Whether his position with the Third Circle made the difference or the fact that he ranked as a bey , life in El Iskandryia was proving easier than he'd ever dreamed possible when he stepped off the plane.