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Plural of dey

regular plural

The plural of dey is deys.

Forms of dey

Singulardey /deɪ/
Pluraldeys
Countablecountable

Deys in a sentence

  • Drawing and quartering was too good for that evil little hornswoggler who had hoodwinked two deys and the entire populace of Algiers, Gimp the Greek included.1996, Stephen Marlowe, The death and life of Miguel de Cervantes: a novel, page 196. From the entry hornswoggler

Meaning of dey

  1. noun A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
  2. noun The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
  3. interjection An informal Tamil-language term of address used when trying to get someone's attention.

Full definition of dey

Questions about the plural of dey

What is the plural of dey?
The plural of dey is deys.
Is dey countable?
Dey is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dey (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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