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doings

[doo-ing]

Origin

noun

action; performance; execution: Your misfortune is not of my doing.

doings, deeds; proceedings; happenings; events.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English; see do¹, -ing¹

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a gadget; dingus; thingumbob.

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doings (ˈduːɪŋz)

—*pl n*
1.	deeds, actions or events
2.	informal (Brit), (NZ) anything of which the name is not known, or euphemistically left unsaid, etc: have you got the doings for starting the car?

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Word Origin & History

doing

early 13c., verbal noun from do. From c.1600-1800 it also was a euphemism for "copulation."

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