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adjective
- (UK, colloquial) silly
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noun
- A skewer
- A sharpened stick, used for roasting food over a fire. Compare dogwood, formerly dagwood
- A long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing
- One of a row of decorative strips of cloth, ornamenting a tent, booth, or fairground
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verb (dag, g, ed)
- (transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
- (transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
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verb , dines, dining, dined
- eat; eat dinner or supper
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noun - A torn up piece of turf (e.g. by a golf club in making a stroke or a horse's hoof).
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noun
- (plural of, doom)
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adjective
- (Geordie) dirty, Dirty, of or pertaining to lack of cleanliness.
- "His claithes were "
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adjective (er, more)
- stern, harsh and forbidding
- gloomy and sullenly unhappy
- unyielding and obstinate
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verb (dows, dowing, dowed or dought, dowed or dought)
- (obsolete) To be worth.
- (obsolete) To be of use, have value.
- To have the strength for, to be able to.
- To thrive, prosper.
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noun (plural when used attributively, dozens otherwise)
- (countable) A set of twelve.
- Can I have a dozen eggs, please?
- There shouldn't be more than two dozen Christmas cards left to write.
- Pack the shirts in dozens, please.
- (context, As plural only, always followed by of) Dozens of: A large, unspecified number of, comfortably estimated in small multiples of twelve, thus generally implied to be significantly more than ten or twelve, but less than perhaps one or two hundred; many.
- There must have been dozens of examples just on the first page.
- An old English measure of ore containing 12 hundredweight.
- Quotations
- 1957: The dozen as a measure for iron ore remained almost completely constant at 12 cwts. during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. — H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 139.
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verb (dree, d)
- (archaic) To endure, suffer, put up with, undergo.
- 1885: And redoubled pine for its dwellers I " Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Volume 8)
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noun
- A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
- A small amount of a liquid.
- In sport, the act of dribbling.
verb (dribbl, es)
- To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool
- To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle
- In various ball games, to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet
- (basketball) To bounce the ball with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with it.
- To advance by dribbling
- (transitive) to let something fall in drips
- (transitive) in various ball games, to move the ball, by repeated light kicks
- (transitive) in basketball, to move the ball by repeatedly bouncing it on the floor of the court
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noun
- (obsolete) A blow.
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verb (dub, b, ing)
- (transitive) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.
- Hence, to name, to entitle, to call.
- A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope.
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noun - (Scots) A dull-sounding blow
verb to dunt
- (Scots) To knock with such a blow
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