dee

present singular third person diz · participle present deein · participle past dyun · past dyun · alternative de

1. NorthumbriaTo do.

   What are ye deein man!

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   My au'd father did it. But it's sae mony years syne, it must be wore out by now, and I shall have to dee it again.

   1891, John Atkinson, anonymous quotee, Forty Years in a Moorland Parish, page 62

plural dees · alternative de

1. The name of the Latin script letter D/d.

   IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".

   2016, CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), pages 3–5

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   I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.

   2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170

2. Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.

   the pommel is furnished with dees.

3. slangA police detective.

   The dees are about.

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   The second day he was beaten up by the cops / For telling a dee his house was not in order […].

   1966, James K. Baxter, The Maori Jesus

4. alternativeAlternative form of D (“dick, penis”)

   The wealthy or ultra wealthy can smell desperation easily and know when you are sucking dee

   2026 April 9, @Cypherpunkgod1, X

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   we stared at each other til we passed + I turned + looked back but he didn't. What am I supposed to do to get these boys? Grab their dee's right then + there? It's so frustrating.

   1973 September 12, Lou Sullivan, Diary

   My girlfriend came the other night but my Dee has refused to stand since then but when we were talking I was on heat so bad before her arrival. Can that be a medical problem?

   2026 June 21, @1d3co, X

1. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
2. A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.

   And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]

   1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39

3. A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale, and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
4. A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
5. A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.
6. A unisex given name, short for names beginning with D.

   His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.

   1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN

7. A surname of multiple origins.

plural Dees

1. Alternative letter-case form of dee.