dey
About 0.97 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
- noun The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
- pronoun Pronunciation spelling of their, representing African-American Vernacular English.
- pronoun Pronunciation spelling of there, representing African-American Vernacular English or Caribbean English.
- pronoun Pronunciation spelling of they, representing dialects with th-stopping in English.
- interjection An informal Tamil-language term of address used when trying to get someone's attention.
Similar words
jus den cose jes comin hey ain deie dairymaid dairygirl
Often followed by
of is was do and had say would all
Word family
deyes deys
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