My wife, Liz, deserves a dictionary entry of her own as a definition of tolerance, patience and encouragement way beyond conventional expectations. In the wider world, my sister and family added to both my library and vocabulary; and my other family, now in Spain, even went so far as to put a christening on hold until a deadline had been met, as well as allowing me access to the playground language of our time. I must also thank Gerri Smith for her tolerant understanding that I could not be in two places at once | 213 DOOM pussy mission dorcas DOOM pussy mission noun a night bombing run flown by US bombers over North Vietnam. The DOOM came from the the Da Nang Officer s Open Mess the pussy refered to the relative lack of danger in a night mission us 1991 doom tube noun the hollow of a wave that does not offer a surfer the ability to leave the hollow us 1991 doomy adjective very depressed and discouraged dismal uk 1968 door noun 1 a supplier of drugs Canada 2002. 2 a capsule of Doriden a trade name for glutethimide a sedative us 1992. from the door from the outset us 1967 doorbell noun the nipple of a woman s breast us 1973 doorcard noun in seven-card stud poker a player s first face-up card UK 2003 door-hugger noun a girlwho sits as far away from her date when he is driving as possible us 1966 door jockey noun a doorman us 1993 doorknob noun 1 a socially inept person us 1994. 2 a shilling. Predecimalrhyming slang for bob a shilling uk 1961 doormat noun 1 a person who is easily manipulated by others uk 1883. 2 a toupee us 1952. 3 in surfing a bodyboarder that is a surfer who lies down on the surfboard. Derogatory south Africa 2003 door pops noun dice that have been altered so that they will score a 7 or 11 more frequently than normal us 1950 door-pusher noun a girl who stays as close as possible to the passenger door while riding in a car on a date us 1999 doorshaker noun a night watchman us 1942 doorstep noun not on your own doorstep a piece of folkphilosophy often as an injunction do not get sexually involved with anyone close to home or at work uk 2003 doorstep verb of a journalist to wait near a subject s door in order to obtain an interview a photograph etc uk 1981 doorstep sandwich noun a sandwich that uses two very thick slices of bread Ireland 1989 doorstop noun in computing broken or obsolete equipment us 1991 door whore noun 1 someone employed to welcome clubbers to a club but who actually enforces a strict exclusion policy based on the club s style requirements uk
