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doe

noun
/dəʊ/UK/doʊ/US

Etymology

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.

  1. derived from *dʰeh₁(y)-✻ — “to suck (milk), to suckle”
  2. inherited from *daihā✻ — “female deer, mother deer”
  3. inherited from dā
  4. inherited from do — “(female) fallow deer”

Definitions

  1. A female deer

    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.
    • The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.

  2. A female fallow deer.

  3. A female rabbit or hare.

  4. ›+ 10 more definitions

    1. A female squirrel.

    2. A female kangaroo.

    3. Obsolete spelling of do.

      • As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous[…].
      • […] a voyage to plant yͤ first colonie in yͤ Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in yͤ presence of God […]

    4. though

    5. Initialism of Design Of Experiments.

    6. Initialism of depends on experience.

    7. Initialism of Dictionary of Old English.

    8. Initialism of Department of Energy.

    9. Initialism of Department of Education.

    10. 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at doe. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at doe. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

6 hops · closes at doe

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA