doe
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- noun
- /doʊ/
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cierva
- The female rabbit or doe, can deliver as many as six litters a year.
You should go into it like a doe with, you know, these doe eyes.
- You should go into it like a doe with, you know, these doe eyes.
- You were elected because you are good, you're a good hawk, and now you become a doe.
Examples
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After a while, a doe returned and made soft noises at the fawns.
Fiction book (1990) -
Suddenly, one doe leapt straight up, turned in the air, and then bounded away.
Fiction book (1996) -
Without taking my eyes off the doe, I asked the farmer, "What do I do?"
Fiction book (1998) -
The deer was a doe; it was bound to be a doe.
Fiction book (1997) -
Across the river, a doe came down to the water's edge and quietly drank.
Fiction book (1994) -
A small doe.
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Panting like a doe, she lay big-bellied on her side, wide-eyed in shock.
Fiction book (1997) -
The old man butchered the doe, Smathers watching how he relished the wielding of the knife.
Fiction book (2002) -
I came in today because I noticed last night, when I went out to do milking chores, that my doe had this abscess under her chin.
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While hiking in the forest, I spotted a magnificent doe grazing peacefully among the trees.
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Doe comes from an old English word that meant 'female deer', and it is the female partner of buck, so people started using doe for grown female animals like rabbits and kangaroos. So today doe means a mature 'female' of certain mammals.