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doublegee

doublegee noun: three-cornered jack.

Noun

doublegee (plural doublegees)

  1. Three-cornered jack.
    • Fronting the tea-coloured Greenough and overwhelmed by vast paddocks of hay stubble behind, in was a simple, peculiar shack in a lake of doublegees.1993, Tim Winton, Land's Edge, Picador, published 2014, page 17
    • Auntie Marg was down from Magnet and me and Lee played cricket out the back with the littlies to get some air and keep them busy. Now and then a batter would really get onto one and the ball'd go out through the doublegee paddock towards the train tracks and someone'd have to go tippy-toeing...2018, Tim Winton, The Shepherd's Hut, Picador UK Paperback edition 2018, p.114

Forms of doublegee

pluraldoublegees

Questions about doublegee

What does doublegee mean?
Doublegee means three-cornered jack.
What part of speech is doublegee?
Doublegee is a noun.
What is the plural of doublegee?
The plural of doublegee is doublegees.

Words near doublegee in the dictionary

  1. doubledeckers
  2. doubledome
  3. doubledomes
  4. doubleganger
  5. doublegangers
  6. doublegee
  7. doublegees
  8. doublehand
  9. doublehanded
  10. doublehandedly
  11. doublehandedness

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