Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cut off; lop; shear.
- n. A fit of ill humor or sullenness.
- n. The foxtail reed.
- n. A shell.
- n. In tile-making, a mold with an annular throat through which clay is forced to form drain-pipe.
- To beat; beat out.
Wiktionary
- n. Ulster sulk, huff
- n. Ireland lump
- v. transitive To cut off, as wool from sheep's tails; to lop or clip off.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947
Etymologies
- From Scots daud ("large piece"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Why should our defense budget make room for the nations healthcare problems when the primary goal of the dod is to be the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the military.”
“Time to call a dod a dog and a terroist a terroist, even if we PROFILE.”
““Hear me,” continued Boone; “she desired me to ask you not to use that ugly word dod-rot any more.””
“The second scholar asserted that dod-aarsen, too, alludes to the bird’s bulbous shape: dod from the Dutch for “round heavy lump” and aarsen as cognate to the venerable English “arse.””
“1423: Hibs's Polish goalie is covered in muck after an afternoon of heroics - including a nice big 'dod' on his shiny noggin.”
“Dafydd Wigley (Welsh): Cynulliad yn dathlu dod yn 10 oed”
“Most tickets are $30 (for two days) to $75 (includes home tours). dod.dwell.com/tickets.”
“New boyfriend claims to be special ops us navy seal with dod says records are sealed?”
“Yes | No | Report from jost wrote 30 weeks 5 days ago as i said before get an oringinal copy of game dod by wolters it's the best sincerly jost”
“The "dod whisperer" techniques have been condemned, or at least not supported, in a lot of the world.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dod’.
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Palindromes
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Bob
He's everywhere.
bob, Bob, bobolink, nabob, bobbing, apple bobbing, Bob Dylan, ragtag and bobtail, plumb bob, kabob, discombobulate, earbob and 106 more...
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Grasses
Grasses, and words about grasses.
Prairie grasses names are found in this list.
Names of medical marijuana strains can be found elsewhere.cheatgrass, downy brome, chess, brome, bronco-grass, Sudan grass, ryegrass, cocksfoot, tussock, pampas, fescue, perennial and 323 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
Tweets
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Aug 5, 2010