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beginning with letter D
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daft
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adjective
  1. (UK, colloquial) silly
dag
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noun
  1. A skewer
  2. A sharpened stick, used for roasting food over a fire. Compare dogwood, formerly dagwood
  3. A long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing
  4. One of a row of decorative strips of cloth, ornamenting a tent, booth, or fairground
= verb (dag, g, ed)
  1. (transitive) To skewer food, for roasting over a fire
  2. (transitive) To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags
dine
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verb , dines, dining, dined
  1. eat; eat dinner or supper
divot
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noun
  1. A torn up piece of turf (e.g. by a golf club in making a stroke or a horse's hoof).
dooms
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noun
  1. (plural of, doom)
dorty
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adjective
  1. (Geordie) dirty, Dirty, of or pertaining to lack of cleanliness.
"His claithes were "
dour
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adjective (er, more)
  1. stern, harsh and forbidding
  2. gloomy and sullenly unhappy
  3. unyielding and obstinate
dow
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verb (dows, dowing, dowed or dought, dowed or dought)
  1. (obsolete) To be worth.
  2. (obsolete) To be of use, have value.
  3. To have the strength for, to be able to.
  4. To thrive, prosper.
dozen
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noun (plural when used attributively, dozens otherwise)
  1. (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.
  1. (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.
  1. 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.
dree
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verb (dree, d)
  1. (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)
dribble
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noun
  1. A weak, unsteady stream; a trickle.
  2. A small amount of a liquid.
  3. In sport, the act of dribbling.
verb (dribbl, es)
  1. To let saliva drip from the mouth, to drool
  2. To fall in drops or an unsteady stream, to trickle
  3. In various ball games, to run with the ball, controlling its path with the feet
  4. (basketball) To bounce the ball with one hand at a time, enabling the player to move with it.
  5. To advance by dribbling
  6. (transitive) to let something fall in drips
  7. (transitive) in various ball games, to move the ball, by repeated light kicks
  8. (transitive) in basketball, to move the ball by repeatedly bouncing it on the floor of the court
dub
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noun
  1. (obsolete) A blow.
= verb (dub, b, ing)
  1. (transitive) To confer knighthood; the conclusion of the ceremony was marked by a tap on the shoulder with the sword.
  2. Hence, to name, to entitle, to call.
A man of wealth is dubbed a man of worth. Pope.
dunt
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noun
  1. (Scots) A dull-sounding blow
verb to dunt
  1. (Scots) To knock with such a blow
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