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)
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You mean to be good-natured, neighbors, but really you're enough to deave one.
From The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town by F. Earl Christy
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
Noisy enough to deave one, by nature, give a bit Skye a reason and he'll lie a' the day under a whin bush on the brae, as canny as a fox.
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
Oh, how she would deave me with that old proverb.
From Wild Kitty by L. T. Meade
If mair they deave us wi' their din, Or Patronage intrusion, We'll light a spunk, and ev'ry skin, We'll rin them aff in fusion Like oil, some day.
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
I've been deaved aboot 'im a' the day, but I haena seen the sonsie rascal nor the braw collar the Laird Provost gied 'im.
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
Catrine’s a good lass enough, and a good-hearted, and lets herself be deaved all day with a runt of an auld wife like me.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 11 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
I wouldna be deaved wi' your keckling for a' your eggs.
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
"All the folk in Edinburgh will be coming, and the poor woman be deaved with their spiering."
From Greyfriars Bobby by Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson
Ezra: I cannot catch a note: I’m getting old, and deaved as well as darkened.
From Krindlesyke by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
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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