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Examples
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Und Leah kisses her und gries like dot her heart's broke, und she dooks off dot gurse from Rudolph und goes avay.
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Aye, child, and he knew lords and dooks -- and such like -- now it's anybody as'll give him a dinner.
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I sent for the physicians that received the patronage of the noble lords and dooks and they made me _sicker_; and finally for the physicain "to her most gracious majisty the Queen of Great Britain," -- but their aristocratic attention to me was of no use.
Strange Visitors Henry J. Horn
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One would have thought from the side on him that he was all sorts of dooks.
The Pothunters 1928
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"All I mean is, everybody's got to go to work -- the dooks an 'aristercrats like the rest."
Jimmie Higgins Upton Sinclair 1923
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"Aren't the dooks and earls and so on in the smart set?"
The Sins of Séverac Bablon Sax Rohmer 1921
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Well, now we're agoin 'in the train like dooks – an' after that we're agoin 'to
Harding's Luck Edith 1909
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Say, I'm used to these dooks and counts -- I've been around Peacock Alley at the Waldorf too long not to know 'em by their checkered pants and them canes!
The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play Paul Dickey 1909
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At the first sight of their boarder in it, the two women cried out with pleasure, likening him to dooks and dashing villains on the stage, well seen by them from upper galleries of the past.
V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905
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My people ain't dooks to set me up on any such a swell lay as conjuring.
The Magic World Gerald Spencer Pryse 1891
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