Meanings
adverb'deed (not comparable)
- informalnot comparableIndeed.
“’Deed they doesn’t. They fills their bellies wi’ ther ’oney,” bleated Granny blastingly.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 1851 more example
“Now, Molly, is that really true that you saw the Leprechauns” - “’Deed, and did I, ma’am; but this boy’s always laughin’ at me about thim, and that makes me rather shy in talkin’ o’ thim.”
1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 380
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