dozen

  • 31dozen — noun 1》 (plural same) a group or set of twelve.     ↘informal a lot. 2》 (the dozens) a ritual exchange of insults among black Americans. Phrases talk nineteen to the dozen Brit. talk incessantly. Derivatives dozenth adjective Origin ME: from …

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  • 32dozen — [13] Dozen traces its ancestry back to the Latin word for ‘twelve’, duodecim. This was a compound formed from duo ‘two’ and decem ‘ten’. This gradually developed in the postclassical period via *dōdece to *doze, which, with the addition of the… …

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  • 33Dozen Girls — Single by The Damned from the album Strawberries B side Take That Mine s a Large One Landlord Torture Me Released September 17, 1982 …

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  • 34dozen'd — Cleveland Dialect List wrinkled or withered [of people, fruits, etc] …

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  • 35dozen — sb. Pol. S. 229 …

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  • 36dozen — doz·en || dÊŒzn n. twelve items, group of twelve …

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  • 37dozen — zoned …

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  • 38dozen — a. Twelve …

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  • 39dozen — doz·en …

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  • 40dozen — doz•en [[t]ˈdʌz ən[/t]] n. pl. doz•ens, (as after a numeral)doz•en, 1) a group of 12 2) cvb sts the dozens, Slang. a ritualized game in which the players attempt to outdo each other in insults (usu. used in the phrase play the dozens) 3)… …

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