dee

Verb

dee (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle deein, simple past and past participle dyun)

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

Noun (1)

dee (plural dees)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Dee

IPA/diː/

Dee

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. 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; […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 39
3. A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale, and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
4. A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
5. A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.
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.1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN
7. A surname of multiple origins.

Noun (2) capitalized: Dee

IPA/diː/

Dee (plural Dees)

1. Alternative letter-case form of dee.