dear vs deer
Definitions
noun
- a beloved person; used as terms of endearment
- a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child)
adverb
- with affection
- at a great cost
adjective
- sincerely earnest
- with or in a close or intimate relationship
- having a high price
- dearly loved
Examples
My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards.
Going upmarket, I can go into Dear Soup except on busy days, as the tables are a bit close together and sitting beside a slurper is an ever-present danger.
Searching online (thank you, dear neighbor, for not using password protection), I read about poor souls who'd paid $200, $400, and even $1,500 to have this exact problem fixed.
Definitions
noun
- distinguished from Bovidae by the male's having solid deciduous antlers
Examples
The breaking of a branch under my foot alarmed the deer.
The auctioneer's podium faced a wall hung with six sets of mounted antlers each side of a large red deer's head.
Red Deer Catholic schools are publicly funded schools within the province of Alberta.
