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doctor's stuff

doctor's stuff noun: medicine.

Noun

doctor's stuff (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) medicine
    • We taught the people to believe in bottles of doctor's stuff; and now they buy it at the stores instead of consulting a medical man.1906, George Bernard Shaw, The Doctor's Dilemma
    • I take the doctor's stuff although / It's bitter-tasting, and what's more, / It's not a remedy I know. / Its action seems a trifle slow.a. 1993, Stanley Mason, “The Old Age Villanelle”, in Collected poems of Stanley Mason, published 1993

Questions about doctor's stuff

What does doctor's stuff mean?
Doctor's stuff means medicine.
What part of speech is doctor's stuff?
Doctor's stuff is a noun.

Words near doctor's stuff in the dictionary

  1. doctor's bonnet
  2. doctor's certificate
  3. doctor's note
  4. doctor's office
  5. doctor's orders
  6. doctor's stuff
  7. doctor's we
  8. doctor, heal thyself
  9. doctorable
  10. doctoral
  11. doctoral advisor

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