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doe¹
- /dəʊ/ UK
- /doʊ/ US
Sounds like do (music), doh, d'oh, dough (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
From Middle English do (“(female) fallow deer”), from Old English dā, from Proto-West Germanic *daihā (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).
Cognate with Middle Scots da, dae (“female fallow deer”), Danish då (“fallow deer”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.
noun doe · does
- A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used). A doe from round a spruce stood looking at them Across the wall, as near the wall as they. She saw them in their field, they her in hers.
- A female fallow deer.
- A female rabbit or hare.
- A female squirrel.
- A female kangaroo.
doe²
- /dəʊ/ UK
- /doʊ/ US
Sounds like do (music), doh, d'oh, dough (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ
verb does · doing · doth · did · didde · done
- Obsolete spelling of do.do As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous[…].
doe³
- /dəʊ/ UK
- /doʊ/ US
Sounds like do (music), doh, d'oh, dough (toe–tow merger) · Rhymes with -əʊ
adverb
- Pronunciation spelling of though.though
DOE⁴
noun DOEs
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verb
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proper noun
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- Initialism of Department of Education.Department of Education “As a result, OCR found that the district’s pattern of inconsistent responses to reports it received of sexual harassment – infrequently responding under Title IX or not responding at all – rose to the level that the district’s response to some families’ sexual harassment reports was deliberately in
Doe⁵
- /dəʊ/ UK
- /doʊ/ US
Rhymes with -əʊ
Where it comes from
* As an English and Scottish surname, from the noun doe.
* As a Norman surname, from Old French d' Eu, from Eu, Seine-Maritime. That city's name could be from Frankish *auwju (“island, water meadow”) or otherwise a reduction of Latin Augusta.
proper noun Does
- A surname of English origin. In the amended complaint, Carter is accused of raping the then-13-year-old Jane Doe at an afterparty for the MTV Video Music Awards in the year 2000.
