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plural deys
(UK dialectal, Scotland) A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid. examples
(historical) The ruler of the Regency of Algiers (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire. quotations
[…] the reigning Dey of Algiers (half of whose twenty-eight predecessors are said to have met violent ends) lost his temper with the French consul, struck him in the face with a fly-whisk, and called him ‘a wicked, faithless, idol-worshipping rascal’.
1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 29
Pronunciation spelling of they, representing dialects with th-stopping in English. examples
Pronunciation spelling of there, representing African American Vernacular English or Caribbean English. examples
(Singapore, Malaysia, slang, rare, between friends) A familiar term of address conveying extra emphasis at the end of sentences. quotations
If a player makes a silly mistake, he doesn’t wail when told to “wake up lah, dey”.
2007 September 10, Sandra Leong, The Straits Times, quoted in Jack Tsen-Ta Lee, A Dictionary of Singlish and Singapore English, Singapore: Singapore Press Holdings Limited, page 6