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deie

deie is the obsolete spelling of dey.

Meaning of dey

Noun (1)

dey (plural deys)

  1. (Scotland, UK, dialectal) A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.

Noun (2)

dey (plural deys)

  1. (historical) The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
    • […] the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 29

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Forms of deie

pluraldeies

Questions about deie

What is deie the obsolete spelling of?
Deie is the obsolete spelling of dey.

Words near deie in the dictionary

  1. Deidesheimers
  2. deidolize
  3. deidolized
  4. deidolizes
  5. deidolizing
  6. deie
  7. deies
  8. deific
  9. deifical
  10. deifically
  11. deificate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: deie (page history and authors); dey (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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