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noun
A sweetheart, a prostitute, a mistress or kept woman.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic
Qualifier: Thieves' Cant
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noun
A defined opinion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: colloquial
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noun
Clipping of doxycycline.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal, uncountable
Topics: medicine, pharmacology, sciences
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noun
A dachshund.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: informal
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noun
An aggressive creature similar to a fairy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: fantasy
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noun
a woman who cohabits with an important man
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: concubine, courtesan, paramour
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: mistress, kept woman, fancy woman
Narrower terms: odalisque
History
Perhaps from Middle Dutch *doketje, diminutive of Middle Dutch docke (“a doll”), from Proto-Germanic *dokko (“something round”), related to *dukkǭ (“muscle, strength”). Cognate with Low German dokke (“doll”), Saterland Frisian dok, dokke (“a doll”), Swedish docka (“doll, puppet”).
From -doxy in orthodoxy, heterodoxy, etc.
Clipping. From deoxy-.
Clipping of dachshund + -y.
Coined by J.K. Rowling in the Harry Potter series as the name of a species of biting fairy, possibly originally from Etymology 1 or from Etymology 3 (doxycycline is used to treat various diseases caused by insect bites). Likely influenced by pixie.
