Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Alamellicorn beetle of the family Scarabæidæ, a species of dung-beetle, Geotrypes stercorarius. It is one of the commonest British beetles, less than an inch long, black with a metallic reflection, and is often heard droning through the air toward the close of the summer twilight. Also called
dor-beetle , sometimesdor-fly , and provincially in England buzzard-clock. - n. A drone (bee).
- n. The cockchafer, Melolontha vulgaris.
- n. Also dor-beetle.
- n. One of several ground-beetles, species of the family Carabidæ and genus Harpalus. More fully called black dor.
- To hoax; humbug; make a fool of; perplex.
- n. A trick; a practical joke.
- n. A practical joker.
- n. A fool.
- n. In the nomenclature of the spicular elements of sponges, a monaxial lance-shaped or curved rod, one end of which is sharply pointed while the other has a two- or three-edged blade.
- n. An abbreviation of Doric.
Wiktionary
- n. A large European dung beetle, Geotrupes stercorarius, that makes a droning noise while flying.
- n. General term for flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A large European scaraboid beetle (Geotrupes stercorarius), which makes a droning noise while flying. The name is also applied to allied American species, as the
June bug . Called alsodorr ,dorbeetle , ordorrbeetle ,dorbug ,dorrfly , andbuzzard clock . - n. A trick, joke, or deception.
- v. obsolete To make a fool of; to deceive.
Etymologies
- From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora ("humming insect"), from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *dher-, *dhrēn- (“bee, hornet, drone”). Related to Middle Low German dorne ("bumblebee"), Middle Dutch dorne ("bumblebee"), Dutch dar ("drone"), Old English drān ("drone"). More at drone. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But she heard a disagreeable buzzing, as if a great many huge flies, or gigantic mosquitoes, or those insects which we call dor-bugs and pinching-dogs, were darting about.”
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“But she heard a disagreeable buzzing, as if a great many huge flies, or gigantic mosquitoes, or those insects which we call dor bugs, and pinching dogs, were darting about.”
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“Absence of menstrual blood created a legal category called dor katei, which was considered a generation cut off (dor katua) because it indicated infertility.”
“Then he slams Corzine for giving money to people like Ferriero .... calls dor Pay2 {lay reform to apply to unions too”
“E minha intuição diz que preciso sentir a dor do outro pra compreendê - lo em sua dimensão humana.”
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Indian writers and poets on the blogosphere
“Mas essa natureza está envolta nas amarras dos séculos de dor, do obscurantismo, dos grandes enigmas e contradições da própria existência, do divino e do amor.”
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Indian writers and poets on the blogosphere
“Eles acreditaram sempre, nós apenas “acordámos” depois de muito terem eles e elas sofrido, como se uma lança espetada de dor nos tivesse impelido a “acordar” … foi assim a partir do Massacre de Sta.”
Global Voices in English » East Timor: Celebrating Global Solidarity for Freedom
“Não têm o mínimo respeito e nem disfarçam o desejo de que a dor renda, em escala nacional, o máximo possível, até que venha a próxima catástrofe, o próximo escândalo.”
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“If your going to shoot longer ranges a .243, 7-08, .308 is a better choice, you really don't need anything bigger than an '06 dor whitetails, even for longer shots, it's over kill if you use anthing bigger.”
“Both the articles in Semana and El Tiempo suggest the intelligence service increasingly have come under control of Colombian drug lords, performing services or doing favors for, dor example, ‘Don Mario’, ‘El Cuchillo’ and ‘El Loco Barrera’.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dor’.
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beetles
beetles
anobiid, beetle, bookworm, borer, bruchid, buprestid, cadelle, canegrub, cantharid, cantharis, carabid, chafer and 117 more...
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3-letter Scrabble Words
aah, aal, aas, aba, abo, abs, aby, ace, act, add, ado, ads and 995 more...
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WORDNIK - words found in "Wordnik"
kino, din, dink, dirk, do, don, dor, dork, dow, down, drink, drown and 54 more...
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"D" words
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Most Obscure Words
acatalectic, acosmism, acuate, acuminate, adscititious, adytum, akratisma, alieniloquy, allelomorph, allochiria, allodium, alnage and 620 more...
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Hedgepiglet
Words for things both tangible and nonanthropic
rorqual, vellus, wrasse, rainbow bee-eater, tinkershire, lemonquat, boomslang, tufted vetch, cubeb, nipplefruit, madapple, wad and 447 more...
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DYSLEXIC'S DREAD
Words That Make Sense in Reverse Too! Bad news for a dyslexic, 'cause s/he's got no clue if s/he read the word correctly or not, as opposed to a palindrome (i.e., no mistake possible, cf. "Dyslexic...
tool, lever, nap, pool, leer, leek, desserts, strop, doom, ukiah, yaws, ward and 213 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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A few of my favorite definitions from...
I'm especially fond of ones written by Charles Sanders Peirce.
theodolite, illusion, buckie, frank, abstract-concrete, semidiagrammatic, object-object, vortex-filament, dod, parrock, cobler, weather-box and 354 more...
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deliriumslibrarian's Words
hunangi, hurdygurdy, elemental, wild, wildkind, kenning, convivencia, feminista, warrior, liminal, ellipsis, elision and 23 more...
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You Must Be Joking
Words for pranks, tricks, jokes, and capers.
dido, jest, frolic, lark, monkeyshines, firkery, riggite, rig, shavie, steracle, bourd, cod and 38 more...
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complex emotion, single word
I keep looking for lists of these; most are too wide-ranging and/or orientalist* to be useful. Here's a start. Suggestions welcome.
I didn't want to include all the old chestnuts, but ...weltschmerz, anomie, schadenfreude, accidie, angst, ennui, sehnsucht, saudade, toska, akrasia, funktionslust, natsukashi and 9 more...
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jmoreno's Words
amor, felicidade, paz, dor, honra, saudade, amizade, amigo, chama
Tweets
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bilby Looking forward to that sonnet. Apr 26, 2011
ruzuzu Start with sponge. It's quite a read. Apr 26, 2011
yarb I'd like a full lexicon of the spicular elements of sponges, so that I can incorporate as much of it as possible in a sonnet. Apr 26, 2011
ruzuzu Yes, but you can't beat Cent. Dict. #10: "In the nomenclature of the spicular elements of sponges, a monaxial lance-shaped or curved rod, one end of which is sharply pointed while the other has a two- or three-edged blade." Apr 26, 2011
milosrdenstvi And I wanted a one-syllable word for this in a poem two months ago. Drat. Apr 26, 2011
bilby Missile. As in Scud. Apr 25, 2011
Wordplayer In Romanian, this is a noun that means "the action of missing something". There is no noun for this in the English language. Apr 25, 2011
oroboros Rod in reverse. Nov 2, 2007
deliriumslibrarian Roma: longing without object, passion without source, yearning without end. Jun 13, 2007