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Deady

name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    (A nickname for) gin, or a particular kind of gin. British, obsolete, slang, uncountable

    "Nor took a punch nor given a swing, / But just soaked deady round the ring / Until their brains and bloods were foul / Enough to make their throttles howl, […]"

  2. 2
    Alternative letter-case form of deady. alt-of, uncountable

Etymology

From Deady, the last name of David Deady and his brother James Deady, distillers in London in the early 1800s.

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