Meaning of dood | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A riding camel or dromedary.
2. Eye dialect spelling of dude.
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Examples

“The Chief was lying down beside my dooly, aking a nap while his tent was being prepared, with his head resting on his hand, for he refused to accept⟳ the loan of my pillow, when a camel-driver came by, leading a huge dood so carelessly as to bring⟳ him right across Sir Colin.”

““I have⟳ never seen it,” he replied, “but I have⟳ seen them attack a dood.” “What is a dood?” “A camel; one of a troop fording the river.””

“"Talk⟳ about yer doods," said a Texas stockman, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train⟳ last⟳ night, "but a leetle the doodest dood I ever seen wuz a feller that come⟳ down from Boston into our kentry a year ago las' September."”

“An' now Oi suppose⟳ if Oi don't get⟳ thim rolls riddy fer der brikfus' av that small dood that comes ter see⟳ Alice, Oi'll niver hear⟳ der end⟳ av it. Wot do Oi kee-ur? If he gives me a quarter whin he goes, it's more'n he'll do, fer all he's a dood an' all.”

“On the dood ranch the dweller from the city can renew his almost forgotten ambition to be one with the rider of the Western plains --the cowpuncher, the Indian fighter, the pony express⟳ rider, the buffalo hunter, the scout.”

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