doe

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If I be not prevented shortly, I intend to make merry with my parishioners, this Christmas, for all the sorrow, lest perchance I never return to them again_; and I have heard say that a doe is as good in winter as a buck in summer."

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  1. noun The female of a deer or related animal.
  2. noun The female of various mammals, such as the hare, goat, or kangaroo.

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  • They're not looking for just any doe, they're looking for the ones that are either in estrus or about to be.
  • Without fail, the older partner is portrayed as either a bumbling old fart who's desperate for a lay or a sexual predator seeking to take advantage of the virginal youth, while the younger person is usually portrayed as a doe-eyed dummy who got taken for a ride or a gold-digger. —  The Bilerico Project
  • Last year, the state Department of Agriculture and Markets euthanized three fallow deer at Sunnyview Farm after a doe was found in October to carry TB, the source of which is still unknown, Huntley said. —  timesunion.com: Local Breaking News
  • Rhetorical statement aside, however, the moments in conventional slice of life can sometimes reek of as much artificiality as a doe-eyed girl stricken with Hereditary Hysterical Herpes does, and LS makes the transition process from moment to moment infinitely more natural. —  Design daily news
  • Maung Det'doe is his pen name in all of SPDC's journal.
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  1. Middle English do, from Old English dā.

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  1. from Middle English doo, do, earlier da, from Anglo-Saxon dā (once, glossing L. “damma vel dammula”) = Danish daa, in comp. daa-dyr (dyr = English deer), deer, fallow deer, daa-hind (hind = English hind), doe, daa-hjort (hjort = English hart), buck, daa-kalv (kalv = English calf), fawn, = Swedish dof-, in comp. dof-hind, a doe, dof-hjort, a buck, = Old High German tāmo, dāmo, Middle High German tāme, German dam-, in comp. dam-bock (bock = English buck), dam-hirsch (hirsch = English hart), dam-thier (thier = English deer), dam-wild, dann-, tann-wild (wild = English wild), a deer, = French daim, masculine, deer, daine, feminine, doe, = Provencal dam = Spanish dama = Italian daino, masculine, daina, feminine, damma, feminine, from Latin dāma, damma (feminine, used also as masculine), a deer, prob. connected with domare = English tame, q. v. The Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, and modern G. forms are variously altered from the normal form in their derivation from the L. dāma. The native Anglo-Saxon word is hind: see hind.
  2. Scots; origin obscure.
 

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