Did you maybe mean one of these? dona, donna, doon
Etymologies
- Originally a product name. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“They were spacious and housed a rotating queen-size bed with a leopard skin doona.”
“For our family a wagga was what most normal people would call a doona or a duvet.”
“And they have weird names for things like "doona"?”
“My muscles stiffen if I doona work to keep them active.”
“You never thought beyond your big doona coat and keeping yourself warm.”
“I claim it is helping save the planet, being heated by the odd feline and my doona.”
“So if Havock makes a tent in the doona whenever Caitlin is dispatching villains, Beeso got a hint of anti-green on the back of his palate and I wallowed in The Kippers angst I think that says a great deal about the quality of the writing.”
Cheeseburger Gothic » First Discussion thread for After America.
“I doona think Val Hall can take a Lykae biting through the first floor.”
Simon & Schuster: Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
““Mari, you have to let go—I doona want to hurt your hands.””
Simon & Schuster: Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
““I doona know—” Suddenly, he lunged forward with his hand outstretched, palm up above one of the bodies.”
Simon & Schuster: Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘doona’.
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trademark
all of these are from 7 English
dictionaries and Macquarie dictionary
I havent listed capitalized ones yet
but Viagra would be one and common
words like sterling a sub-machi...agene, adware, airbus, alnico, amberina, amarone, apiezon, aspirin, atebrin, atebrine, autocue, autoharp and 774 more...
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Magic or Madness
Words from the glossaries in the back of the novels.
ambo, arse, bickie, biscuit, bloke, boong, bottlebrush, bronze medallion, bugger, bunyip, cardie, chips and 79 more...
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cosy
pyjamas, toast, windowsill, teaspoon, kettle, pocket, journal, flannelette, quilt, doona, and, sneeze and 15 more...
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Words I dislike
preggers, hubby, wifey, funky, slurpie, moist, olden, arvo, kthnxbye, fierce, whiff, organza and 14 more...
Tweets
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PossibleUnderscore Could anyone offer an etymology for this word?
Edit: Apparantly it was originally a brand name, I think. Feb 3, 2010
bilby There there. Oct 11, 2008
lampbane Comforter. Sep 17, 2008