Definitions
Etymologies
- Dutch duitken, diminutive of duit. See doit, and compare doitkin. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“That do I, replied Sancho Panza; for I am fully persuaded, that although God would rain kingdoms down upon the earth, none of them would sit well on Mary Gutierez her head; for, sir, you must understand that shes not worth a dodkin for a queen.”
“Either of the turnkeys would sell his soul for a dodkin, and blow up the castle for a ducat, Legate and all,' answered the sergeant in the same tone.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dodkin’.
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A taste for small things
Diminutives
screamlet, pip, purrlet, mannikin, nipperkin, munchkin, dodkin, elfkin, bootikin, dudeen, boreen, jackeen and 40 more...
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Coined
cent, penny, nickel, dime, quarter, farthing, shilling, halfpenny, twopence, threepence, sixpence, groat and 91 more...
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End in -kin
You heard it here first. Well, maybe not first, but you heard it here. Well, maybe not "heard," but read. You read it here. At some point.
gherkin, merkin, firkin, malkin, pumpkin, bumpkin, pipkin, bodkin, napkin, mannikin, pigskin, sealskin and 83 more...
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Wilton's words
Favourite words, usages and passages from Nashe's "The Unfortunate Traveller: or, the Life of Iacke Wilton" (1594)
doit, dandiprat, weep one's urine ..., snudge, scuppet, langret, fullam, hedgecreeper, pickthanke, go shop the gander, together by the ears, quagmire and 42 more...
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Dutchly things
Words having some sort of Dutch origin, probably boring to everyone but me — I'm currently browsing 2,422 entries having "Dutch" in their definitions/etymologies, the best of which should fin...
mynheerify, mynheer, advocaat, dutch bargain, blauwbok, butter-box, quardeel, clinquant, closh, coot, dodkin, dorp and 85 more...
Tweets
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yarb A number of olde bookes had he eaten with the moathes and wormes, now all daye would not hee studye a dodkin, but picke those wormes and moathes out of his Librarie, and of their mixture make a preseruatiue against the plague. The licour out of his shooes he would wring to make a sacred balsamum against barrennes.
- Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594 Apr 14, 2010
she An early name for the doit, a small Dutch coin. Hence, any coin of very small value. Aug 6, 2008