dee

name

1. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
2. A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.

   “And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]”

3. A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale, and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
4. A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
5. A locality in Central Highlands Council, central Tasmania, Australia.
6. A unisex given name, short for names beginning with D.

   “His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.”

7. A surname of multiple origins.

noun

1. (alt-of)Alternative letter-case form of dee.
2. The name of the Latin script letter D/d.

   “I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.”

   “IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".”

3. Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.

   “the pommel is furnished with dees.”

4. (slang)A police detective.

   “The dees are about.”

   “The second day he was beaten up by the cops / For telling a dee his house was not in order […].”

verb

1. (Northumbria)To do.

   “What are ye deein man!”

   “My au'd father did it. But it's sae mony years syne, it must be wore out by now, and I shall have to dee it again.”