| 单词 |
doofer |
| 释义 |
doofer slang.|ˈduːfə(r)|
Also doofah, doovah, doover.
[Prob. alteration of do for in such phrases as that will do for now.]
= thingummy (see also quots.).
1937Partridge Dict. Slang 234/2 Doofer, half a cigarette: workmen's [slang]. 1941Baker Dict. Austral. Slang 25 Doover, any object, thingummy. 1945― Austral. Lang. viii. 153 Other words of particular note [in the 1939–45 war] were..doover, doovah, or doovah-dah used as a general utility term for a thingumebob, specifically applied to any shelter, especially a humpy, and to a hospital bottle for urination, whence, doover-joey, a male hospital nurse. 1945Salt 2 July 43/2 Idly I lean against the parapet of our doover. 1945C. H. Ward-Jackson Piece of Cake (ed. 2) 24 Doings, used in place of any noun that cannot be recalled on the spur of the moment... Variants are ‘Doofer’ and ‘Dooshanks’. 1969‘S. Troy’ Swift to its Close vii. 110 Mr. Turvey returns 'ome. Comes again to the Hangar in time for the doofah. 1970P. Dickinson Seals iv. 95 This is a very fancy doofer indeed... It transmits along one wavelength and receives along another. |
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