Word.ws English Dictionary

deef

deef adjective: deaf.

Adjective

deef (comparative more deef, superlative most deef)

  1. (dialectal, obsolete) deaf
    • 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.1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC

Verb

deef (third-person singular simple present deefs, present participle deefing, simple past and past participle deefed)

  1. (Internet) To use diphenhydramine recreationally.

Forms of deef

Adjective
comparativemore deef
superlativemost deef
Verb
third-person singular presentdeefs
present participledeefing
past participledeefed
pastdeefed

Origin of deef

altered from the first syllable of diphenhydramine

Questions about deef

What does deef mean?
Deef means deaf.
What part of speech is deef?
Deef can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near deef in the dictionary

  1. deeds poll
  2. deedwork
  3. deedworthy
  4. deedy
  5. deeeath
  6. deef
  7. Deeg
  8. Deegan
  9. Deegans
  10. deein
  11. deejay

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: deef (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “deef.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/deef. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.