Definitions
Wiktionary
- interj. Expresses surprise and consternation at a stupid mistake made by oneself, or another person.
- n. music An anglicised spelling of do. A syllable used in solfège to represent the first and eighth tonic of a major scale.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major diatonic scale in solmization, usually written
do .
WordNet 3.0
- n. the syllable naming the first (tonic) note of any major scale in solmization
Etymologies
- An anglicised spelling of do. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Thanks so much for doing this but I probably should’ve told you we were leaving Monday morning at 5am;) so I didn’t get these recs until today, and we’re back in - doh - Brisbane.”
“Ryan and Andrew ... doh, that is a mistake on my part.”
“This will give you the major scale (most commonly known as doh, rei, me, fah, soh etc etc).”
“McCain, putting the 'doh' into using federal dough" -- future campaign teaser.”
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“PHILLIPS: Well, just say "doh," and get ready to raise a Duff beer to America's first family of dysfunction.”
“D'oh!" has entered the Oxford English Dictionary, though they spell it "doh".”
“Orton, Quinn and Plummer all have that knack for the 'doh' moment at precisely the wrong time.”
“After 15 minutes of not seeing anything but six foot stalks, we decided to turn around to the point we started and noticed a sign informing us of the right way … "doh".”
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“It was difficult to say much about Fitzgerald Touissant or Mike Shaw from what we saw yesterday, neither looked spectacular and neither did anything to cause me to say "doh".”
“The chimes of NBC's peacock, Homer Simpson's "doh", and the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doh’.
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one word exclamations
keep it rated G please, thanks!
( open list, randomness )zoiks, sheesh, gosh, shucks, jeez, woot, heck, thunderation, oops, gadzooks, what, hey and 90 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Allographic Homophones
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
air, are, ayr, ayre, e'er, ere, err, eyre, heir, apatite, appetite, picnic and 226 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Rust words
Words I come across that I like
ensconce, realpolitik, fetid, froufrou, insouciant, sup, doh, truncated, obfuscate, shakespeherian, ocular, proletariat and 35 more...
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tardspeak
ph3@r mY l337 hax0r sp33k
lollerskates, roflcopter, leet, haxor, the internets, artard, failboat, pr0n, pwn, omgwtfbbq, lulz, o rly and 19 more...
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comewalk's Words
weblog, blog, weird, blogging, awesome, word, moody, swing, wtf, imho, investigate, rid and 47 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for doh.
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