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dey
/deɪ/
pron 3noun 2name 2intj 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
half, over, over, reigning
VERB + DEY
wake
DEY + NOUN
algiers
PREP.
up
Definitions
noun
1
A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
noun
1
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’.
pron
1
Pronunciation spelling of their, representing African-American Vernacular English.
2
Pronunciation spelling of there, representing African American Vernacular English or Caribbean English.
“Boy, is horrors over dey, for so,” he said, obviously excited and anxious to be the bearer of extraordinary news. “Wat happen, somebody dead?”
3
Pronunciation spelling of they, representing dialects with th-stopping in English
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[…] 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
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“Boy, is horrors over dey, for so,” he said, obviously excited and anxious to be the bearer of extraordinary news. “Wat happen, somebody dead?”
Wiktionary03
Dey! Did you press the lift button? What? You have pressed the button for the tenth time?
Wiktionary04
Dei, you think what, President’s Star Charity ah?
Wiktionary05
If a player makes a silly mistake, he doesn’t wail when told to “wake up lah, dey”.
Wiktionary06
Dey is over.
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