different between dood vs dowd

English

Etymology 1

Back-formation from dudhwallah, doodwallah (“milk-man”, literally “milk-ward”), reinterpreting the wallah of milk as a wallah of camels by dint of misremembrance of the Bengali word for “camel” which is ?? (u?).

Noun

dood (plural doods)

1. A riding camel or dromedary.

Etymology 2

Noun

dood (plural doods or doodz)

1. Eye dialect spelling of dude.

Related terms

• d00d

Anagrams

• do do, dodo

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??t/

Etymology 1

From Dutch dood, from Middle Dutch dôot, from Old Dutch d?t, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

dood (attributive dooie, comparative dooier, superlative doodste or dooiste)

1. dead
2. (figuratively) exhausted; listless; fatigued

Derived terms

• doodmoeg

Adverb

dood

1. dead
2. (figuratively) exhausted; listless; fatigued

Etymology 2

From Dutch dood, from Middle Dutch dôot, from Old Dutch d?th, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz.

Noun

dood (uncountable)

1. death; the act of dying
2. the dead; something that is no longer alive
3. (figuratively) a complete loss

Derived terms

• dodehuis
• doderyk

Etymology 3

From Dutch doden, from Middle Dutch dôden, from Old Dutch *d?den, from Proto-West Germanic *daudijan, from Proto-Germanic *daudijan?.

Verb

dood (present dood, present participle dodende, past participle gedood)

1. (transitive) to kill
2. (transitive) to end permanently

Derived terms

• sieldodend

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?t/
• Hyphenation: dood
• Rhymes: -o?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch dôot, doet, from Old Dutch d?t, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, German tot, English dead, Danish død.

Adjective

dood (comparative doder, superlative doodst)

1. dead

Inflection

Derived terms

• dode
• doden
• dooddoener
• een broertje dood hebben
• hersendood
• monddood (secondary motivation)

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dood

Adverb

dood

1. (colloquial, East and West Flanders) A lot.

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch dôot, doet, from Old Dutch d?th, d?t, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz. Compare West Frisian dead, German Tod, English death, Danish død.

Noun

dood m (uncountable)

1. death

Derived terms

• de dood of de gladiolen
• dood door schuld
• doodsbleek
• doodsoorzaak f (“cause of death”)
• doodstraf
• doodvonnis
• doodziek
• hersendood

Descendants

• Afrikaans: dood

Etymology 3

From doden.

Verb

dood

1. first-person singular present indicative of doden
2. imperative of doden

Anagrams

• dodo

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian d?d, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

dood

1. dead

Somali

Verb

dood

1. to debate; to dispute

English

Etymology

Back-formation from dowdy.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /da?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Noun

dowd (plural dowds)

1. (archaic) A dowdy person, especially a woman; a frump.
   • 1913, Henry Sydnor Harrison, V. V.'s Eyes, Chapter XI:

     He, of course, was only an unbalanced religious fanatic, whose opinions were not of the slightest consequence to anybody, whom everybody seemed to take a dislike to at sight (except ignorant paupers like the Cooneys), and whose ideal type of girl would probably be some hideous dowd, a slum-worker, a Salvation Army lassie, perhaps.

   • 1915, James Branch Cabell, The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck, Chapter II:

     "You wouldn't have me a dowd, Olaf?" said she, demurely. "I have to be neat and tidy, you know. You wouldn't have me going about in a continuous state of unbuttonedness and black bombazine like Mrs. Rabbet, would you?"

   • 1920, May Edginton, Married Life, or The True Romance, Chapter XVI:

     Marie was still away upon her trail. "I don't really let myself go as much as you might think. I'm always dressed for breakfast, if I've been up half the night; I don't allow myself to be slovenly. And however I've had to hurry over putting the children to bed, and cooking dinner and things, I always change my blouse and put on my best slippers before Osborn comes in. I feel—at home I feel as if I look quite nice; but when I come out of it"—she indicated her surroundings—"I realise I'm just a dowd who's fast losing what looks she had. When I come out, and see others, I—I know I can't compete. It makes you almost afraid to come out. And Osborn—while I'm at home, plodding along, you see, he's out, seeing the others all the time. He sees them in the restaurants, and they pass him in the street—girls as I used to be."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:dowd.

Welsh

Alternative forms

• daethpwyd
• deuwyd
• doed

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dou?d/

Verb

dowd

1. (literary) preterite impersonal of dod

Mutation