Deejayed

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. Acted as a disc jockey by playing and mixing recorded music for an audience
2. Provided music entertainment by selecting and blending tracks at an event or venue
3. Operated DJ equipment to play and sequence songs for listeners

Etymology: "Deejayed" is the past tense and past participle of "deejay", so its history is really the history of that verb. "Deejay" is a pronunciation spelling of the abbreviation DJ, with the two letters spelled out and run together as they would be spoken. The verb takes the sense of the person behind the turntables and applies it to the act of doing that job: to deejayed a party is to spin records there. The abbreviation DJ stands for "disc jockey", and the spoken form "deejay" follows the letters' sound, dee-jay. Because the verb is simply the spelling of that sound turned into a working verb, its past tense "deejayed" follows the regular pattern of English verbs ending in a vowel sound, adding "-ed" to form the past.

Synonyms: DJed, played music, mixed, performed, entertained