Doris

Translingual

Proper noun

Doris

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Dorididae — sea slugs, specifically, dorid nudibranchs.

See also

• Doris (genus) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Doris (genus)
• Doris on Wikispecies. Wikispecies

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English

Wikipedia

Etymology 1

The feminine form of Doric.

Proper noun

Doris

1. (Greek mythology) The daughter of Oceanus, wife of Nereus and mother of fifty sea-nymphs or nereids.
2. A female given name, taken to regular use in the end of the 19th century.
3. (UK, slang) One's girl friend, wife or significant other.

Quotations

• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: IV: xi: 49:

  And snowy neckd Doris, and milkewhite Galathæa.

• 1866, Mary A. Prescott, Doris Daylesford, A Story, in Beadle's Monthly Magazine of To-day, volume 2, page 149:

  My Doris - may I call you that, dearest?"

  "Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, call me Lalage, or Doris - only call me thine," I should have answered, if it had not been a little too sentimental. - - - I am afraid I omitted to state, in the proper place, that Doris is a name which has descended through a dozen generations of our family, that it belongs to myself as well as to my niece,

• 1989, Judy Carter, Stand-up Comedy: A Book (ISBN 0440502438), page 35:

  I've never met an old person named Judy. Now that's true. Maybe something happens to girls with young names like Debby, Judy, and Susie. At a certain age they make you change it to Doris, Edna, or Myrtle.

Etymology 2

From the name of famous film star Doris Day; (Cockney rhyming slang).

Adjective

Doris (not comparable)

1. (Cockney rhyming slang) gay

Anagrams

• DOSRI
• roids, 'roids
• rosid

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Danish

Proper noun

Doris

1. A female given name borrowed from English usage, popular in the 1920s and the 1930s.

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German

Proper noun

Doris

1. A female given name borrowed from English usage, popular in the mid-twentieth century.

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Swedish

Proper noun

Doris

1. A female given name borrowed from English usage, popular in the 1920s and the 1930s.