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Definition of Deedy
1. a. Industrious; active.
Definition of Deedy
1. Adjective. Industrious; active. ¹
2. Adjective. Earnest; serious. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deedy
1. industrious [adj DEEDIER, DEEDIEST] - See also: industrious
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deedy
Literary usage of Deedy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Worcester Almanac, Directory and Business Advertiser by American Genealogical Lending Library (1883)
"34 Deady, see deedy [Cherry, h. 14 Cedar Dean Alexander H. boot and shoe stock,
2 Dean Alice K. ... 31 N. Ashland deedy Ann 1). widow of James F. house 12 ..."
2. The American Senator by Anthony Trollope (1877)
"deedy is,—deedy is,—deedy is,—deedy is," repeated the parrot in a very angry
voice about a dozen times under his shawl, and while the old lady was ..."
3. Mystic London; Or, Phases of Occult Life in the Metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies (1875)
"Beyond an innocuous flirtation with the curate at decorations, or a choral meeting,
Miss deedy has as few sins as most of us to answer for; but, ..."
4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1893)
"NW (2) Intent, as 'What bist looking so deedy at?' —NW *Dee-gee. Mr. William
Cunnington writes us as follows :— '" Twas a Dee-gee " was the name of a kind ..."
5. The Yellow Book by Fraser Harrison (1894)
"It was Mr. deedy who had let it down so dreadfully—he was never mentioned in the
office ... Young as I was I had been in a manner taken over from Mr. deedy, ..."
6. Chronicles of the Builders of the Commonwealth: Historical Character Study by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1892)
"He replied that genteel people called him deedy ... He said the result was, in
that neighborhood, he was generally called deedy. I was born on May 12, 1824, ..."
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