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Deaf-and-dumb   Listen
adjective
deaf-and-dumb, deaf and dumb  adj.  Both deaf and unable to speak; without the sense of hearing or the faculty of speech. Same as Deaf-mute.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Deaf-and-dumb" Quotes from Famous Books



... pride in him. He turned back, for Blossy was making a speech. His hand to his head, he bent his good ear to listen. In terms poetical and touching she described the loneliness of the life at the Home as it had been with no man under the roof of the house and only a deaf-and-dumb gardener, who hated her sex, in the barn. Then in contrast she painted life as it must be for the sisters now that the thirty tender vines had found a stanch old oak for their clinging. "Me?" queried Abraham of himself and, with another silent ...
— Old Lady Number 31 • Louise Forsslund

... and Fom, in the midst of a finger conversation carried on politely with a deaf-and-dumb alphabet, had had their attention attracted by the ghastly word-picture made so vivid by their father's voice. So, wearying of the innocuous desuetude of things, it occurred to them to present for Frank's entertainment ...
— The Madigans • Miriam Michelson



Words linked to "Deaf-and-dumb" :   deaf-and-dumb person



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