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dooced

dooced adjective: deuced.

Adjective

dooced (comparative more dooced, superlative most dooced)

  1. (dated, dialectal) Deuced.

Adverb

dooced (comparative more dooced, superlative most dooced)

  1. (dated, dialectal) Deuced.
    • Should have liked to belong to that set, only they drank so dooced hard.1884, George Augustus Sala, Quite Alone, page 18
    • "Dooced good fishing in Blankshire," threw in Charlie Mayne.1878, John Byrne Leicester Warren, Salvia Richmond

Verb

dooced

  1. (Internet) Dismissed from one's job as a result of one's actions on the Internet.
    • Bill Poon in California got dooced from a burger joint when he posted a picture of his boss on MySpace.2007, Erik Ringmar, A Blogger's Manifesto
    • Careless blogging can get you dooced.2007, Laurie J Mullins, Management and Organisational Behaviour

Forms of dooced

Adjective
comparativemore dooced
superlativemost dooced
Adverb
comparativemore dooced
superlativemost dooced

Origin of dooced

Coined in 2002 from Dooce, the pseudonym of American blogger Heather Armstrong, who was dismissed for blogging about her work and colleagues, + -ed.

Questions about dooced

What does dooced mean?
Dooced means deuced.
What part of speech is dooced?
Dooced can be an adjective, an adverb or a verb.

Words near dooced in the dictionary

  1. doobry
  2. doobs
  3. doobt
  4. dooby
  5. dooce
  6. dooced
  7. doocedly
  8. dooces
  9. doocot
  10. doocots
  11. doocracies

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