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half-dozen

noun

Etymology

From half- + dozen.

  1. derived from duodecim — “twelve”
  2. derived from dozaine — “a group of twelve”
  3. inherited from dozen
  4. prefixed as half-dozen — “half + dozen”

Definitions

  1. Alternative spelling of half dozen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for half-dozen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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