dee

The name of the Latin script letter D/d.

Noun

  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. 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:

Forms

dees de

Related

Tweedle-dee whoop-dee-do whoop-dee-doo whoop dee doo zip-a-dee-doo-dah

Derived

deejay ecks dee

Verb

  1. 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:

Origin

Variant of do.

Forms

diz deein dyun de