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Dee

//diː// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 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. 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; […]"

  3. 3
    A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale, and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
  4. 4
    A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
  5. 5
    A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.
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  1. 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."

  2. 7
    A surname of multiple origins.
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative letter-case form of dee. alt-of
  2. 2
    The name of the Latin script letter D/d.

    "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."

  3. 3
    Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.

    "the pommel is furnished with dees."

  4. 4
    A police detective. slang

    "The dees are about."

Verb
  1. 1
    To do. Northumbria

    "What are ye deein man!"

Etymology

Variant of do.

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