dee

verb, noun — 4 senses

dee

verb

/ˈdiː/ · interrogative /dɪ/

Etymology Variant of do.

1

Northumbria To do.

What are ye deein man!
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:

dee

noun

1

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.2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
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:

2

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

the pommel is furnished with dees.

3

Slang A police detective.

The dees are about.
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:

Derived terms: deejay, ecks dee
Related terms: Tweedle-dee, whoop-dee-do, whoop-dee-doo, whoop dee doo, zip-a-dee-doo-dah

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