Meaning

3 senses
  1. Industrious; active.

  2. Earnest; serious.

  3. (dialectal)Genuine, authentic; actual, real.

Origin

From deed + -y. Cognate with Scots deedie, deedy (“active”). Compare also German tätig (“a

From deed + -y. Cognate with Scots deedie, deedy (“active”). Compare also German tätig (“active”).

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Forms

deedier, deediest
Comparativedeedier Lesson
Superlativedeediest Lesson

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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