Doris

名词 n. 形容词 adj. 专有名词
中文释义
英 /ˈdɒɹɪs/    美 /ˈdɔɹɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One's girlfriend, wife or significant other. UK,slang
  2. A woman, especially when older or unattractive. UK,slang
    — Fella at work, right? He's met this Doris on a park bench, at lunch time, and he's started going out on like, dates with her!
形容词 adj.
  1. gay Cockney,not-comparable,slang
专有名词
  1. The daughter of Oceanus, who married Nereus and bore fifty sea-nymphs or nereids. Greek
    — And snowy neckd Doris, and milkewhite Galathæa.
  2. A surname.
  3. An ancient region of Asia Minor, modern Turkey, inhabited by the ancient Dorians.
  4. An ancient mountainous region of Greece, the traditional homeland of the Dorians.
  5. 48 Doris, a main belt asteroid.
  6. A female given name from Ancient Greek, taken to regular use at the end of the 19th century.
    — "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 […]
  7. A surname.
  8. Nickname for Boris Johnson (born 1964), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022. UK,derogatory
    — I look forward to Doris' "wise" words on the subject once he gets back to the office.

词形变化

Dorises plural Dorises plural

词源

词源 1
From Ancient Greek Δωρίς (Dōrís). Sense 7 is owing to similarity to Boris.
词源 2
* Shortened Anglicized form of Irish Ó Dubhruis, from earlier Ó Dubhrosa, from Ó (“descendant”) + Dubhros, a name from dubh (“black”) + ros (“wood”).
* A habitational French surname from d' (“of”) + Oris-en-Rattier (“a commune in Isère, France”).
词源 3
From the name of famous film star Doris Day.
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