DEEP, DEEPEN, DEEPEST, DEEPLY, DEEPNESS
ADJECTIVES
► ASS-DEEP TO A MAN IN A JEEP exceptionally deep → 1960 Amer. dial.
► ASS-DEEP TO A TALL INDIAN exceptionally deep → 1967 Amer. dial.
► ASS-DEEP TO A TALL MOOSE exceptionally deep ..1974 Amer. dial.
► ASSHOLE-DEEP very deep; of a depth sufficient to reach one’s rump → 1963 Amer. sl.
► DEEPSOME having deepness or depth; more or less deep → 1615 poetic usage
► FATHOM-DEEP excessively deep → 1835
► HALF-LEG DEEP approximately knee-deep or knee-high → 1752 Amer. dial.
► HALF-LEG HIGH approximately knee-deep or knee-high → 1852 Amer. dial.
► NEAL of water: deep → 1574 obs.
► QUEEM deep → 1879 Sc.
► SHOE-MOUTH DEEP ankle deep → 1890 Amer. dial.
► DEEPMOST deepest → 1810
ADVERBS
► ADEEP deeply, deep → 1850
► DEARLY deeply, keenly → 1590 obs.
► FATHOMLESSLY very deeply → 1822
► HEAD OVER EARS deeply, completely → 1822 Amer. dial.
► KNUCKLE-DEEP deeply, ‘up to the hilt’ deeply involved → 1589
NOUNS
► CATHOLE a deep place in a river, creek, pond, etc. → 1842 Amer. dial.
► DEEPNESS a deep place or cavity, an abyss; a deep part of the sea, etc. → a1000 obs.
► DEEP depth, deepness → c1000 obs.
VERBS
► DEEP to make deep, to deepen → c930 obs.