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deedly ball

deedly ball is the alternative form of deedlee ball.

Meaning of deedlee ball

Noun

deedlee ball (plural deedlee balls)

  1. A small decorative ball made of yarn.
    • The woman and the pony were posed before velvet draperies which were fringed with deedlee-balls. They were flanked by Doric columns.1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 35

Forms of deedly ball

pluraldeedly balls

Questions about deedly ball

What is deedly ball the alternative form of?
Deedly ball is the alternative form of deedlee ball.

Words near deedly ball in the dictionary

  1. deedlee ball
  2. deedlee balls
  3. deedless
  4. deedlessness
  5. deedly
  6. deedly ball
  7. deedly balls
  8. Deedra
  9. deeds
  10. deeds of appointment
  11. deeds of assumption

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