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dood (plural doods)

1. A riding camel or dromedary.
   • 1860, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India, in the Year 1858–9, volume 2, London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, page 25:

     The Chief was lying down beside my dooly, aking a nap while his tent was being prepared, with his head resting on his hand, for he refused to accept the loan of my pillow, when a camel-driver came by, leading a huge dood so carelessly as to bring him right across Sir Colin.

   • 1892, George Manville Fenn, Gil the Gummer, Or, The Youngest Officer in the East, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 42:

     “I have never seen it,” he replied, “but I have seen them attack a dood.”
     “What is a dood?”
     “A camel; one of a troop fording the river.”

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dood (plural doods or doodz)

1. Eye dialect spelling of dude.
   • 1884 August, “The Boston Dude”, in Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal, volume 18, number 8:

     "Talk about yer doods," said a Texas stockman, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train last night, "but a leetle the doodest dood I ever seen wuz a feller that come down from Boston into our kentry a year ago las' September."

   • 1888 November 17, “The Cook's Soliloquy”, in Time, volume 8, number 223, page 7:

     An' now Oi suppose if Oi don't get thim rolls riddy fer der brikfus' av that small dood that comes ter see Alice, Oi'll niver hear der end av it. Wot do Oi kee-ur? If he gives me a quarter whin he goes, it's more'n he'll do, fer all he's a dood an' all.

   • 1925, Collier's - Volume 76, page 34:

     On the dood ranch the dweller from the city can renew his almost forgotten ambition to be one with the rider of the Western plains --the cowpuncher, the Indian fighter, the pony express rider, the buffalo hunter, the scout.

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名詞

dood (plural doods)

1. (Hong Kong) Alternative form of doot.

動詞

dood (third-person singular simple present doods, present participle dooding, simple past and past participle dooded)

1. (Hong Kong) Alternative form of doot.

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• do do, dodo