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Widowhood
is always a great word to know.
So is doohickey. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
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| widow (ˈwɪdəʊ) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a woman who has survived her husband, esp one who has not remarried |
| 2. | informal (usually with a modifier) a woman whose husband frequently leaves her alone while he indulges in a sport, etc: a golf widow |
| 3. | printing Compare orphan a short line at the end of a paragraph, esp one that occurs as the top line of a page or column |
| 4. | (in some card games) an additional hand or set of cards exposed on the table |
| —vb | |
| 5. | to cause to become a widow |
| 6. | to deprive of something valued or desirable |
| [Old English widuwe; related to German Witwe, Latin vidua (feminine of viduus deprived), Sanskrit vidhavā] | |
| 'widowhood | |
| —n | |
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