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Meaning of doylem | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ˈdɔɪləm/

Definitions

A stupid person; an idiot.

Geordie, Mackem, Yorkshire, derogatory, slang

Examples

“"Ye're a bloody doylem, you are, ye daft southe'n twat! C'mon, Sally, walk on". Sally looked up at him, then at me, and sat down again, craning her head forward between my arms, and sniffing. Pierre's game was *much* more interesting than walking with Donald. It had muck, and dirt, and some *very* interesting smells.”
“We shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but he was a bit of a doylem.”
“You stupid little fucking halflife, 20 second alone with Infoseek or Altavista would have given you this (Lame) program from 100's of sites run by fucking doylums like your good self”
“The end of another crap gig: we'd played great music — badly — to the usual drunken doylems in a well-strafed WMC.”
“A couple of half-decent birds, but otherwise the whole place was some kind of funny farm for disturbed, nonced-up, rat-faced, smegma-sandwich-eating doilems.”
“The shows could then provide a valuable service to society, allowing the divvy and radgie to air their pointless grievances to their heart's content in front of an army of happy daytime TV watching doylems ...and let the police get on with some proper work instead.”
“'Now look what you've done, you total doylum! It's half off me!' Mary hissed at her sister.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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