deave
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to deafen
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to bewilder or weary (a person) with noise
Etymology
Origin of deave
before 1050; Middle English deven, Old English -dēafian (in ādēafian to grow deaf; see a- 3)
Example Sentences
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Ewan McBride's lad he is, if ye must deave me with his forebears .
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
The noise the maitter o' twenty chields like Sandy cud mak' wi' their buit soles wud fair deave a hale neeperhude.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
Dinna ye deave her Grace with your speirings, my lammie.
From Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Oh, how she would deave me with that old proverb.
From Wild Kitty by L. T. Meade
He humm'd and haw'd, the lass cried "pheugh," And bade the coof no deave her, Syne crack'd her thumb, and lap and leugh, And dang the silly weaver.
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
He's deaved wi' my talking; he says it's all nought to do with the things o' to-day, and that's his business.'
From North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Sandy cudna sit still at nicht, an' he sang an' smokit till, atween bein' deaved an' scumfished, I was nearhand seek.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
Indeed, we were deaved about the affability of old crabbit Bodle of Bodletonbrae, and his sister, Miss Jenny, when they favoured us with their company at the first inspection ball.
From The Provost by John Galt
I wouldna be deaved wi' your keckling for a' your eggs.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Of similar import to "I wouldna be deaved," &c.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
Overhead a shutter was slammed back, and an angry voice bade him stop "deaving folk."
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
"I'm thinking, Hamish, if the houris in his paradise kenned the words o' the spring I've been deaving him wi', the Egyptian would be very greatly thought of."
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
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