doylem

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
12
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/ˈdɔɪləm/
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/ˈdɔɪləm/ · /ˈdɔɪlɪm/

Definition of doylem

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Geordie, Mackem, Yorkshire, derogatory, slang)A stupid person; an idiot.
    “"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.”

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Etymology

Uncertain; Yaron Matras includes the term in his dictionary of Angloromani, connecting it to Romani dinilo (“a fool”) and Yiddish גולם (goylem, “a fool”). Alternatively, related to the older dialectal term doychle (“a stupid person”). Possibly also connected to doy (a disdainful indication that something is obvious).

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