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Doris¹

  • /ˈdɒɹɪs/ UK
  • /ˈdɔɹɪs/ US
  • /ˈdɑɹɪs/ New York City, Philadelphia

Rhymes with -ɒɹɪs

Where it comes from

From Ancient Greek Δωρίς (Dōrís). Etymology 1 sense 7 is owing to similarity to Boris.

proper noun Dorises

  1. Greek The daughter of Oceanus, who married Nereus and bore fifty sea-nymphs or nereids. And snowy neckd Doris, and milkewhite Galathæa.
  2. An ancient region of Asia Minor, modern Turkey, inhabited by the ancient Dorians.
  3. An ancient mountainous region of Greece, the traditional homeland of the Dorians.
  4. 48 Doris, a main belt asteroid.

    Similar: 48 Doris, ㊽

  5. A female given name from Ancient Greek, taken to regular use at the end of the 19th century. "My Doris—may I call you that, dearest?" "Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, call me Lalage, or Doris—only call me thine," I should have answered, if it had not been a little too sentimental.… I am afraid I omitted to state, in the proper place, that Doris is a name which has descended through a dozen
  6. A surname.
  7. UK, derogatory Nickname for Boris Johnson (born 1964), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022. I look forward to Doris' "wise" words on the subject once he gets back to the office.

    Similar: BoJo, Bozza

noun Dorises

  1. UK, slang One's girlfriend, wife or significant other.
  2. UK, slang A woman, especially when older or unattractive. Fella at work, right? He's met this Doris on a park bench, at lunch time, and he's started going out on like, dates with her!

Doris²

  • /ˈdɒɹɪs/ UK
  • /ˈdɔɹɪs/ US
  • /ˈdɑɹɪs/ New York City, Philadelphia

Rhymes with -ɒɹɪs

Where it comes from

* Shortened Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubhruis, from earlier Ó Dubhrosa, from Ó (“descendant”) + Dubhros, a name from dubh (“black”) + ros (“wood”).

* A habitational French surname from d' (“of”) + Oris-en-Rattier (“a commune in Isère, France”).

proper noun

  1. A surname.

Doris³

  • /ˈdɒɹɪs/ UK
  • /ˈdɔɹɪs/ US
  • /ˈdɑɹɪs/ New York City, Philadelphia

Rhymes with -ɒɹɪs

Where it comes from

From the name of famous film star Doris Day.

adjective

  1. Cockney, not comparable, slang gay

doris⁴

noun

  1. A sea slug. It is a doris, or sea-slug, and is about of the consistence of one of those slugs so destructive to our garden flowers, but is so much more beautiful than that creature, that, were he able to understand us, we should ask pardon for the comparison.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: durres, mrs, pack, beep, female, girl, lass, gal, woman, lady, miss, missus, maiden, wife, chick, bird

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name Asteroid

中文昏神星 Hūnshénxīng
ΕλληνικάΔωρίς Dorís

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@misc{doris_2026,
  title = {doris},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/doris},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}