doone
n.— «Or that in Eastern prep-school lexicon of the time, a “doone” was something of a doofus?» —“Doonesbury’s War” by Gene Weingarten Washington Post Oct. 20, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
doone
n.— «Or that in Eastern prep-school lexicon of the time, a “doone” was something of a doofus?» —“Doonesbury’s War” by Gene Weingarten Washington Post Oct. 20, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Katie in Everett, Washington, is curious about the expression If ifs and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no need for tinkers. What is a tinker? She heard this phrase on the television series The Gilded Age, in response to a character who...