Dor
name, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Any of species Geotrupes stercorarius of large European dung beetles that make a droning noise while flying.
- 2 A trick, joke, or deception. obsolete
"To say you were impotent! I am ashamed on 't! To make yourself no man? to a fresh maid too, A longing maid? upon her wedding-night also, To give her such a dor?"
- 3 Initialism of dance-oriented rock. abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
- 4 Any flying insect which makes a loud humming noise, such as the June bug or a bumblebee.
- 1 A surname.
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More examples"To say you were impotent! I am ashamed on 't! To make yourself no man? to a fresh maid too, A longing maid? upon her wedding-night also, To give her such a dor?"
Etymology
From Middle English dorre, dore, from Old English dora (“humming insect”), from Proto-West Germanic *dorō, from Proto-Germanic *durô (“bumblebee, humming insect”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-, *dʰreh₁n- (“bee, hornet, drone”). Related to Saterland Frisian Doarne (“hornet”), Middle Low German dorne (“bumblebee”), Middle Dutch dorne (“bumblebee”), Dutch dar (“drone”), Old English drān (“drone”). More at drone.
Compare dor (“a beetle”), and hum, humbug.
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