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deafos

deafos is the plural of deafo.

Meaning of deafo

Noun

deafo (plural deafos)

  1. (derogatory, slang) A deaf person.
    • I have heard a headteacher in school refer to the 'deafos' in the unit and that, arguably, was more unforgivable than the remark made by a man watching the Bromley Chain float pass by in the carnival procession.2003, Jenny Froude, Making Sense in Sign: A Lifeline for a Deaf Child, page 156

Questions about deafos

What is deafos the plural of?
Deafos is the plural of deafo.

Words near deafos in the dictionary

  1. deafmutism
  2. deafmutisms
  3. deafness
  4. deafnesses
  5. deafo
  6. deafos
  7. deafs
  8. deage
  9. deaged
  10. deageing
  11. deages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deafos (page history and authors); deafo (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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