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Doxy

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A baby; a plaything; a paramour. In the West of England babies are called doxies.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Downing Professor
Downing Street (London)
Downpour (A)
Downright
Downright Dunstable
Downstairs
Downy (The)
Downy Cove (A)
Dowsabell
Dowse on the Chops (A)
Doxy
Doyleys
Dozen
D. P. or Dom. Proc
Drac
Drachenfels (Dragon-rocks)
Draconian Code
Draft
Draft on Aldgate (A)
Drag in, Neck and Crop
Draggle-tail