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Definition of 'dey'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) deye, deie, daie, from (etyl) .
Alternative forms
* daie, deie, deye
Noun
( en-noun)
A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid.
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
The title given to the ruler of the (now Algeria) under the Ottoman Empire.
*1977 , (Alistair Horne), A Savage War of Peace , New York Review Books 2006, p. 29:
*: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’.
Etymology 3
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