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  • I know a lot of Americans would say "doose, moose, it's the same."

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway mrissa 2009

  • “I say, Strong,” one day the Baronet said, as the pair were conversing after dinner over the billiard-table, and that great unbosomer of secrets, a cigar; “I say, Strong, I wish to the doose your wife was dead.”

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • [Looks in] — Turban, feathers, bugles, marabouts, spangles — doose knows what.

    The Wolves and the Lamb 2006

  • And the diamonds — “Where the doose did you get the diamonds, Becky?” said her husband, admiring some jewels which he had never seen before and which sparkled in her ears and on her neck with brilliance and profusion.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • I say — why the doose do you have such old women to dinner here?

    The Wolves and the Lamb 2006

  • “Who the doose reads this kind of thing?” he thought to himself when he heard of the bargain which Pen had made.

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • "How the doose do you mean to catch 'em?" asked Frere, wiping the sweat from his brow.

    For the term of his natural life 2004

  • What the doose are they about — why, halloa, Darling!

    Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004

  • Larence; doose thee thenk I can bear tha betwitten o 'thic pirty maid?

    The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

  • How it was I coudnt quite undustand, for whether we druv fast or whether we druv slow, doose a bit coud we get away from that parsing shower.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 6, 1891 Various

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  • Thrifty, careful; also, cleanly, though coarsely clothed. - an old provincial term from the north of England.

    May 2, 2011