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noun
1.
a group of 12.
2.
the dozens, Slang. a ritualized game typically engaged in by two persons each of whom attempts to outdo the other in insults directed against members of the other's family (usually used in the phrase play the dozens).
adjective
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Dozen
is always a great word to know.
So is zaftig. Does it mean:
| having a pleasantly plump figure |
| wonderful, great, masterful, deeply satisfying |
Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English dozeine < Old French do(u)zaine, equivalent to do(u)ze (< Latin duodecim) + -aine (< Latin -āna) -an
1250–1300; Middle English dozeine < Old French do(u)zaine, equivalent to do(u)ze (< Latin duodecim) + -aine (< Latin -āna) -an
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verb (used with object) Scot.
to stun.
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| dozen (ˈdʌzən) | |
| —determiner (preceded by a | |
| 1. | a. twelve or a group of twelve: a dozen eggs; two dozen oranges |
| b. (as pronoun; functioning as sing or plural): give me a dozen; there are at least a dozen who haven't arrived yet | |
| —n , dozens, dozen | |
| 2. | by the dozen in large quantities |
| 3. | See baker's dozen |
| 4. | talk nineteen to the dozen to talk without stopping |
| [C13: from Old French douzaine, from douze twelve, from Latin duodecim, from duo two + decem ten] | |
| 'dozenth | |
| —adj | |
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Word Origin & History
dozen
c.1300, from O.Fr. dozeine "a dozen," from douze "twelve," from L. duodecim from duo "two" + decem "ten" (see ten). The O.Fr. fem. suffix -aine is characteristically added to cardinals to form collectives in a precise sense ("exactly 12," not "about 12"). The dozens "invective
EXPANDcontest" (1928) originated in slave culture, the custom probably African, the word probably from bulldoze (q.v.) in its original sense of "a whipping, a thrashing."
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Idioms & Phrases
dozen
see baker's dozen; by the dozen; daily dozen; dime a dozen; six of one, half dozen of the other.
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