deave

Scots

FWOTD – 20 March 2020

Etymology

From Middle English deven, deaven (“to make deaf”), from Old English ādēafian (“to deafen”). See deef.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːv/

Verb

deave (third-person singular simple present deaves, present participle deavin, simple past and past participle deaved)

1. to deafen
   • 1792, Robert Burns, Sic a wife as Willie's Wife:

     A clapper-tongue wad deave a miller

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. to annoy, pester with a noise