English

Adjective

deef ‎(comparative more deef, superlative most deef)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) deaf
   • 1884: Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII

     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.

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deːf/
• Homophone: Deev

Adjective

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

1. (Ripuarian, nothern Moselle Franconian) deep

Luxembourgish

Verb

deef

1. second-person singular imperative of deefen

Middle English

Adjective

deef

1. deaf (unable to hear)

Scots

Alternative forms

• deif

Adjective

deef ‎(comparative mair deef, superlative maist deef)

1. deaf