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  • verb Present participle of dee.

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Examples

  • "I've thowt o 'deein'," he said with a queer catch of his breath.

    One Day at Arle 1996

  • "I've thowt o 'deein'," he said with a catch of his breath.

    One Day At Arle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • Happen the mon speak on dunnot know much about th 'sick wife and th' deein 'choild, and what wur done for 'em, an' if they dunnot, it's th 'parson's fault.

    That Lass o' Lowrie's: A Lancashire Story 1877

  • Weel, my man, ye may haud up yer heid afore the father o 'ye, for ye're the first o' the race, I'm thinkin ',' at ever was near han 'deein' for anither.

    The Marquis of Lossie George MacDonald 1864

  • "Young mon," with a deep voice she said, "what is tha 'deein' wi 'aw that clatter?"

    Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale 1862

  • One day the natives were observed to assemble in more than an ordinary number at their house on the point, and to be full of bustle and agitation, repeatedly calling on the name of Baneelon, and that of 'deein' (a woman).

    A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson Watkin Tench 1796

  • o 'deein', an 'I've wondered how it wur an' what it felt like.

    One Day At Arle Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886

  • "I've thowt o 'deein', an 'I've wondered how it wor an' what it felt like.

    One Day at Arle 1996

  • Was it Almichty God, or was it the itchin 'lugs o' deein 'men, aye hearkenin' to thae skirlin 'birkies wi' their men-made hymes? "

    St. Cuthbert's Robert E. Knowles

  • One day the natives were observed to assemble in more than an ordinary number at their house on the point, and to be full of bustle and agitation, repeatedly calling on the name of Baneelon, and that of ‘deein’ (a woman).

    The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

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