Doug
name ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A diminutive of the male given name Douglas.
"Come and have a drink,' he said, 'and my Christian name is Douglas on this side of the Rye, mind that. Dougal Douglas at Meadows Meade and Douglas Dougal a Willis's, mind. Only a formality for the insurance cards and such.' 'I better call you Doug, and be done with it.'"
Example
More examples"“You have aging millennials who are creating families who should be moving from rental situations into ownership but, because of the lack of housing supply, that has been stopped in a lot of instances. And so, what you see is the aging millennial population continues to rent,” says Doug Ressler, manager of business intelligence at Yardi-Matrix, a commercial real estate data and research firm."
Etymology
Clipping of Douglas.
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