dees

Noun

 * , the name of the letter D.
 * 1) Something shaped like the letter D.
 * 2)  Police detectives.
 * 1)  Police detectives.

Etymology
Attested from the sixteenth century, possibly earlier.

Usage notes

 * Historically not uncommonly encountered even in writing, but today considered typical of spoken language, especially that of children.

Etymology 1
Possibly from, contraction of or  +. Compare 🇨🇬 and the use of 🇨🇬 to introduce a specification or additional requirement.

Alternatives include some formation with 🇨🇬, from, or possibly a contraction similar to 🇨🇬, based on Middle High German   (“it be not”), where the loss of the stressed final syllable would be unexpected, however.

Conjunction

 * 1) unless

Etymology 2
Inflected form of.

Etymology 2
From, plural of. Owing to the noun's frequent use in the plural, sometimes, as in Modern English, reinterpreted as a singular.

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) debt

Adjective

 * 1) bad