OriginFrom deed + -y. Cognate with Scots deedie, deedy (“active”). Compare also German tätig (“active”).
- Industrious; active.
“The novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, asked by the London Times to give a brief account of her life, replied: "There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy." Deedy! This is one of those words that”
- Earnest; serious.
- dialectalGenuine, authentic; actual, real.
Formsdeedier(comparative) · deediest(superlative)
Source: Wiktionary