dobeyingn.
/ˈdəʊbɪɪŋ/ Naval slang.
Washing clothes, doing laundry.
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1929 F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 37.
1940 Illustr. London News 197 160 (caption) Destroyer-men doing their ‘dobeying’ on deck.
1955 Times 2 June 2/6 Some of the early plays..are the stuff of their lives; swabbing and dobeying being more natural than all the heroics.
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n.1929- an apple a day keeps the doctor away
- an arm and a leg
- an awful lot
- an eight days
- an embarrassment of choice
- an empty bag cannot stand
- an empty bag cannot stand upright
- an empty purse
- an empty sack cannot stand
- an empty sack cannot stand upright
- an end
- an englishman'etc home is his castle
- an englishman'man's home is his castle
- an englishman's home is his castle
- an englishman's house his castle
- an englishman's house is his castle
- an equal
- an equal, even wager
- an error of the right hand
- an error on the right hand
- an etc love me
- an even
- an even bet
- an even break
- an even shake