deef

deef (comparative more deef, superlative most deef)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) deaf
   • 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC:

     Then the captain sung out "Stand away!" and the cannon let off such a blast right before me that it made me deef with the noise and pretty near blind with the smoke, and I judged I was gone.

• e-fed, feed

• deep (the traditional Ripuarian form, but archaic in many dialects)
• dief (southern Moselle Franconian)

From Old High German (*)diof, northern variant of tiof.

• IPA^(key): /deːf/
• Homophone: Deev

deef (masculine deefe, feminine and plural deefe or deef, comparative deefer, superlative et deefste)

1. (Ripuarian, northern Moselle Franconian) deep

deef

1. second-person singular imperative of deefen

• def

From Old English dēaf.

• IPA^(key): /dɛːf/
• Rhymes: -ɛːf

deef

1. deaf (unable to hear)

• English: deaf
• Scots: deef, deif, deaf

• deif

From Middle English deaf, from Old English dēaf.

deef (comparative mair deef, superlative maist deef)

1. deaf