dozenn.

/ˈdʌz(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English dozein(e, dozyne, dosain, dosene, Middle English dozeyn(e, doseyn(e, Middle English–1500s dosayn(e, dosein, Middle English–1600s dosen, Middle English duzan, dusan(e, dosan, dussen, 1500s dousaine, dousayne, dossen, dosseyn, dossin, dosson, dosin, dosyn, doosen, dosand, 1500s–1600s dousen, 1600s doozen, dozzen, dossein, 1600s–1700s douzen, 1500s– dozen. β. Middle English disson, Scottish1500s desone, 1700s– dizzen.

Etymology: < Old French dozeine, dosaine, French douzaine = Provençal dotzena, Spanish docena, a Common Romanic derivative of *dōdece, dotze, doze, doce < Latin duodecim twelve + -ēna, as in decēna, centēna, etc.

a. A group or set of twelve. Originally as a noun, followed by of, but often with ellipsis of of, and thus, in singular = twelve. Also, used colloquially in plural, either indefinitely or hyperbolically, for any moderately large number; cf. hundred n. and adj. 2. (Abbreviated doz.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twelve > group or set of twelve

dozen1340

brown dozen?1499

zodiac1560

round dozena1572

twelve1573

quest?1589

jury1592

dodecade1659

society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > tithing

tithingOE

dozena1555

decime1610

decenary1647

frank-pledge1761

the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude

sandc825

thousandc1000

un-i-rimeOE

legiona1325

fernc1325

multitudec1350

hundred1362

abundancec1384

quantityc1390

sight1390

felec1394

manyheada1400

lastc1405

sortc1475

infinityc1480

multiplie1488

numbers1488

power1489

many1525

flock1535

heapa1547

multitudine1547

sort1548

myriads1555

myriads1559

infinite1563

tot-quot1565

dickera1586

multiplea1595

troop1596

multitudes1598

myriad1611

sea-sands1656

plurality1657

a vast many1695

dozen1734

a good few1756

nation1762

vast1793

a wheen (of)1814

swad1828

lot1833

tribe1833

slew1839

such a many1841

right smart1842

a million and one1856

horde1860

a good several1865

sheaf1865

a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869

immense1872

dunnamuch1875

telephone number1880

umpty1905

dunnamany1906

skit1913

umpteen1919

zillion1922

gang1928

scrillion1935

jillion1942

900 number1977

gazillion1978

fuckload1984

1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 670 A dosain of wondrus.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 164 Dauwe þe disschere, and a doseyn oþer [B. dozeine C. dosen].

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11407 Quen ani deid o þat dozein [Gött. dozeine, Trin. Cambr. doseyn; c1460 Laud dozyne].

1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 46 Halfe a dosen sponys.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMviii^v A thyng done, parauenture a dosyn yere before.

15.. A Pore Helpe 335 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 264 And feche in my cosens By the whole dosens.

a1555 J. Bradford in J. Strype Eccles. Mem. (1721) III. App. xlv. 133 Halfe a Dossen of grene Salletts.

1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. ii. 172 Cardinals that are made by the dozens.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 203 A dozen of Knives.

1734 A. Pope Sober Advice from Horace 8 Dangers on Dangers! obstacles by dozens!

1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 58 I saw some dozens of these little animals.

1841 R. W. Emerson Spiritual Laws in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 154 There are not..more than a dozen persons.

a1897 Mod. Six dozen pencils.

1898 G. B. Shaw Philanderer I. iii. 133 There are dozens of men who would give their souls for a look from me.

1913 D. H. Lawrence in Sat. Westm. Gaz. 6 Sept. 9/3 Dozens of men were lounging round the cart.

1961 M. Kenny Spanish Tapestry ii. i. 125 Dozens of tailors squat over their sewing.

1986 N.Y. Times 23 Apr. b9/6 The new league signed dozens of high N.F.L. draft choices.

b. Elliptical (with a noun of measure, etc., understood). dozen of bread: a dozen loaves. dozen of beer, dozen of ale, dozen of wine, etc., i.e. a dozen pots or bottles; hence rump(-steak) and a dozen: see quot. 1893. to give one two dozen, i.e. lashes.

ΚΠ

1574 J. Baret Aluearie D 938 A dosen of bread, duodeni, vel duodecim panes.

1574 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 376 Payed for dozen of breade..iiij^s.

1677 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 37 A dozen of Margett ale.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 308 ‘I'll bet a rump and dozen’, said Pleydell.

1835 C. Shaw Let. 6 Dec. in Personal Mem. & Corr. (1837) II. 453 I ordered them..to receive two dozen each, being caught in the act.

1839 A. Somerville Hist. Brit. Legion iii. 42 He was tied up, and..took his two dozen.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 4 Feb. 8/3 The stake being a ‘rump-steak and a dozen’... It was explained that it was a dinner and as much as you liked to drink.

c. With qualifying words. baker's dozen (see baker's dozen n. at baker n. Compounds 1), devil's dozen, long dozen (see long dozen n. at long adj.¹ and n.¹ Compounds 4a), printer's dozen: thirteen. brown dozen (obsolete) or round dozen: a full dozen. thirteen, (etc.) to the dozen: see quots. to talk nineteen to the dozen: to talk very fast, or to excess.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twelve > group or set of twelve

dozen1340

brown dozen?1499

zodiac1560

round dozena1572

twelve1573

quest?1589

jury1592

dodecade1659

the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > thirteen

thirteenc1000

devil's dozen1831

?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Biij^v Haue at the hasarde or at the dosen browne.

1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 37 Pay it you with aduauntage, at the least thirteene to the dozen.

1598 in Lambert 2000 years of Guild Life (1892) 308 All the saide Company will deliver forthe theire breade..xiij^ten to the dozen.

1820 Ld. Byron Blues i. 36 A round dozen of authors and others.

1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 343/2 Instead of one kick, he deserves and gets a devil's dozen.

1872 ‘Ouida’ Fitz's Election 210 She..generally talked nineteen to the dozen.

†2. A kind of kersey or coarse woollen cloth: see quot. 1552. (Usually in plural.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > coarse or rough > kersey > type of > specific

dozen1523

checkarsey1552

ordinary1552

1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 1 Northerne whites, commonly named and called dosins.

1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6. §13 All Devonshire Kersies called Dozens..shall contain in Length at the Water between twelve and thirteen Yards.

1557 Act 4 & 5 Philip & Mary c. 5. §10 Every Devonshire Kersie, called Dosson.

1640 Tables Rates & Duties in J. Entick New Hist. London (1766) II. 179 Woollen Drapery —— Devonshire dozens..Northern dozens.

1721 C. King Brit. Merchant II. 309 English Clothes called Dozens.

†3. The town-council of a burgh. Scottish. Obsolete. [‘Probably so called because it originally consisted of twelve members’ (Donaldson Supp. to Jamieson). Compare also douzaine n.]

ΚΠ

1416 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. Oct. (Jam. Supp.) Aldermannus pro presenti anno, one dene of gild..one bursator, thirty two of lie dusane.

1418 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. Oct. The dusane is callit ‘duodecim consules et limitatores’.

1492 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. 19 Oct. Ordanit be the hale dusane of the town.

1574 in Peebles Burgh Rec.

†4. Corruptly used for Anglo-Norman dizeyne (French dixaine) a tithing, or group of ten households. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1292 Britton i. xiii. [xii.] §1 Et voloms qe touz soint en dizeyne [v.rr. duzeyne, dozein] et pleviz par dizeyners [v.rr. dozeyners, dozainers].]

15.. Act 18 Edw. II (Berthelet 1543) If al the chiefe pledges or their dosens bee come.

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. X4/2 Now there are no other Dozens but Leetes.

1624 Termes de la Ley at Deciner Deciner is not now used for the chiefe man of a Dozein, but for him that is sworne, to the Kings peace.

5. the dozens: (in African-American usage) a game or ritualized exchange of verbal insults, usually about the family (esp. the mother) of one's opponent or opponents: (see quot. 1984); to play the dozens U.S.: to engage in a game of ritualized verbal insults and ridicule, usually about family (esp. the mother), with one or more other people. to put (etc., a person) in the dozens (also dozen) U.S. colloquial: to start a verbal exchange of insults and ridicule with (a person), esp. by insulting his or her mother. Cf. signify v. 6, sound v.¹ 3d.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > utter invective or abuse [verb (intransitive)] > ritually

to play the dozens1928

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)] > call names > ritually

to put (etc., a person) in the dozens (also dozen)1928

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others

sitisota1400

papsea1450

half-bowl1477

pluck at the crow1523

white and black1555

running game1581

blow-pointa1586

hot cocklesa1586

one penny1585

cockelty bread1595

pouch1600

venter-point1600

hinch-pinch1603

hardhead1606

poor and rich1621

rowland-hoe1622

hubbub1634

handicap?a1653

owl1653

ostomachy1656

prelledsa1660

quarter-spellsa1660

yert-point1659

bob-her1702

score1710

parson has lost his cloak1712

drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754

French Fox1759

goal1765

warpling o' the green1768

start1788

kiss-in-the-ring1801

steal-clothes1809

steal-coat1816

petits paquets1821

bocce1828

graces1831

Jack-in-the-box1836

hot hand1849

sparrow-mumbling1852

Aunt Sally1858

gossip1880

Tambaroora1882

spoof1884

fishpond1892

nim1901

diabolo1906

Kim's game1908

beaver1910

treasure-hunt1913

roll-down1915

rock scissors paper1927

scissors cut paper1927

scissors game1927

the dozens1928

toad in the hole1930

game1932

scissors paper stone1932

Roshambo1936

Marco Polo1938

scavenger hunt1940

skish1940

rock paper scissors1947

to play chicken1949

sounding1962

joning1970

arcade game1978

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [verb (intransitive)] > other specific games

to give a woman a green gowna1586

to play the dozens1928

to play chicken1949

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [verb (transitive)] > involve in ritualized verbal insults

to put (etc., a person) in the dozens (also dozen)1928

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > ritual exchange

the dozens1962

1928 R. Bradford Ol' Man Adam an' his Chillun 12 And yar he come puttin' me in de dozens. Cou'se I busted him wid a rock. I'd bust anybody which put me in de dozens.

1928 R. Fisher Walls of Jericho 9 For it is the gravest of insults, this so-called ‘slipping in the dozens.’ To disparage a man is one thing; to disparage his family is another.

1933 E. Caldwell God's Little Acre x. 142 If you want to play the dozens, you're at the right homestead.

1935 D. L. Cohn God shakes Creation vi. 161 Another prolific source of shootings and stabbings flows from what they call ‘putting 'em in de dozens’. This is a form of Rabelaisian banter engaged in by two or more Negroes. At a gathering one Negro may begin by saying, ‘Yo' mammy hists her tail like a cat.’.. Aspersion after aspersion is cast.

1939 J. Dollard in American Imago Nov. 7 These reactions of concealment and shame convinced me that playing the Dozens is not an orgy of licentious expression for lower-class Negroes; all know that the themes treated are in general forbidden, some refuse to play the game and still others are very resentful and defensive at the mere thought of it.

1941 W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee xxiii. 301 ‘Some fool nigger puts you in the dozen.’.. ‘What's putting you in the dozen?’.. ‘Well,’ said Ford, modest and hesitant, ‘that's talking about your mommer.’

1942 Z. N. Hurston Dust Tracks on Road xii. 225 The bookless may have difficulty in reading a paragraph in a newspaper, but when they get down to ‘playing the dozens’ they have no equal in America.

1942 Amer. Notes & Queries 1 156/1 ‘Playing the Dozens’... This is a widely used phrase among the Negroes in North Carolina (and very likely in most of the South).

1962 R. D. Abrahams in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 299 One will..find girls making dozens-type remarks.

1970 R. D. Abrahams Positively Black iv. 88 He got your whole family in the dozens and your sister on the shelf.

1971 B. Malamud Tenants 131 ‘Chum,’ he said,..‘we have a game we got we call the dozens.’

1973 Black World Aug. 58/2 Could play the dozens for days, talk about your momma bad enough to make you cry.

1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. July–Aug. 44/3 All you have to do to keep them in their proper place, which is deep in the dozens, is to pat your feet and snap your fingers.

1983 J. E. Wideman in Callaloo Feb. 46 I don't say anything nasty about Brother, but there is no sense in putting anybody in the dozens.

1984 Maledicta 1983 7 183 Many cultures have cursing and counter-cursing games, such as the Black American ‘dozens’. The purpose of the dozens is to test the participants' ability to take abuse without reacting. The participants must have a response, they must not show hurt, and they must not react with violence.

1990 S. Morgan Homeboy xix. 123 The style was walkin' slow, drinkin' plenty of water, and doin' your own time; the art was lightin' cigarets from wall sockets, playin' the dozens, cuttin' up dream jackpots, and slowin' your metabolism to a crawl.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

dozenv.

Brit.

/ˈdəʊz(ə)n/, U.S.

/ˈdoʊz(ə)n/, Scottish English

/ˈdoz(ə)n/

Forms: Middle English doysen, Middle English–1700s dosen, 1500s dosin, 1700s– dozen (1800s dozzen).

Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian.

Etymology: Probably of Norse origin, representing an inchoative verb in -na , from the stem of doze v.

Scottish and northern dialect.

1. transitive. To stun, stupefy, daze.But apparently found only in past participle, which might belong to an intransitive verb: cf. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > dull (the senses) [verb (transitive)] > stun

asweveOE

stonyc1330

astone1340

astony1340

stouna1400

stounda1400

stuna1400

stoynec1450

dozen1487

astonish1530

benumb1530

daunt1581

dammisha1598

still1778

silence1785

to knock, lay (out), etc., cold1829

to lay out1891

out1896

wooden1904

to knock rotten1919

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > render unable [verb (transitive)] > render powerless > render powerless or helpless

stuna1400

dozen1487

palsy?1615

paralyse1764

palsify1882

the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > deaden or dull the emotions

stupefy?a1425

dullc1440

benumbc1485

slumber?1533

extinguish1540

extinct1542

numb1561

damp1570

hebetate1574

daunt1581

frostbite1593

hebete1597

blunt1600

unedgea1625

engross1626

astonish1635

consopite1647

bate1649

opiate1650

blura1653

hebescate1657

torpefy1808

dozena1810

dullify1838

hebetize1845

chloroform1849

narcotize1852

sodden1863

vastate1892

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xviii. 126 Mowbray..had beyne doysnyt [1489 Adv. dosnyt] in the ficht.

a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2188 in Poems (1981) 83 Both deif and dosinnit.

a1810 R. Tannahill Poet. Wks. (1844) 86 Dorothy, dozened wi' living her lane.

2. transitive. To make insensible, torpid, or powerless; to benumb. (Only in past participle.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > render physically insensible [verb (transitive)]

astone1340

dead1382

stony1382

dazea1400

astonish1530

benumb1530

mortifya1533

numb1561

dozen1576

pave1635

deaden1684

torpedoa1772

torpefy1808

1576 Trial E. Dunlop in P.H. Brown Scot. bef. 1700 (1893) 212 The merch of the bane was consumit and the blude dosinit.

a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 225 My dearest member nearly dozen'd.

a1837 J. D. Carrick in Whistle-Binkie (1838) 1st Ser. 113 Birds..Dozen'd sit on the frosted spray.

3. intransitive. To become torpid or benumbed.

ΚΠ

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii A dish o' married love right soon grows cauld And dozens down to nane.

a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 194 The birds..Dozen in silence on the bending spray.

Derivatives

ˈdozened adj. benumbed, torpid.

ΚΠ

1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. II. 119 Thou dosend drone.

1828 J. T. Brockett Gloss. N. Country Words Dozened, spiritless, impotent, withered.

1833 J. Galt in Fraser's Mag. 8 651 With a natural inclination (as all old bachelors have) to be dozened.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dozen
释义	dozenn. /ˈdʌz(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English dozein(e, dozyne, dosain, dosene, Middle English dozeyn(e, doseyn(e, Middle English–1500s dosayn(e, dosein, Middle English–1600s dosen, Middle English duzan, dusan(e, dosan, dussen, 1500s dousaine, dousayne, dossen, dosseyn, dossin, dosson, dosin, dosyn, doosen, dosand, 1500s–1600s dousen, 1600s doozen, dozzen, dossein, 1600s–1700s douzen, 1500s– dozen. β. Middle English disson, Scottish1500s desone, 1700s– dizzen. Etymology: < Old French dozeine, dosaine, French douzaine = Provençal dotzena, Spanish docena, a Common Romanic derivative of dōdece, dotze, doze, doce* < Latin duodecim twelve + -ēna, as in decēna, centēna, etc. 1. a. A group or set of twelve. Originally as a noun, followed by of, but often with ellipsis of of, and thus, in singular = twelve. Also, used colloquially in plural, either indefinitely or hyperbolically, for any moderately large number; cf. hundred n. and adj. 2. (Abbreviated doz.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twelve > group or set of twelve dozen1340 brown dozen?1499 zodiac1560 round dozena1572 twelve1573 quest?1589 jury1592 dodecade1659 society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > tithing tithingOE dozena1555 decime1610 decenary1647 frank-pledge1761 the world > relative properties > number > plurality > great number, numerousness > [noun] > a large number or multitude sandc825 thousandc1000 un-i-rimeOE legiona1325 fernc1325 multitudec1350 hundred1362 abundancec1384 quantityc1390 sight1390 felec1394 manyheada1400 lastc1405 sortc1475 infinityc1480 multiplie1488 numbers1488 power1489 many1525 flock1535 heapa1547 multitudine1547 sort1548 myriads1555 myriads1559 infinite1563 tot-quot1565 dickera1586 multiplea1595 troop1596 multitudes1598 myriad1611 sea-sands1656 plurality1657 a vast many1695 dozen1734 a good few1756 nation1762 vast1793 a wheen (of)1814 swad1828 lot1833 tribe1833 slew1839 such a many1841 right smart1842 a million and one1856 horde1860 a good several1865 sheaf1865 a (bad, good, etc.) sortc1869 immense1872 dunnamuch1875 telephone number1880 umpty1905 dunnamany1906 skit1913 umpteen1919 zillion1922 gang1928 scrillion1935 jillion1942 900 number1977 gazillion1978 fuckload1984 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 670 A dosain of wondrus. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 164 Dauwe þe disschere, and a doseyn oþer [B. dozeine C. dosen]. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11407 Quen ani deid o þat dozein [Gött. dozeine, Trin. Cambr. doseyn; c1460 Laud dozyne]. 1420 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 46 Halfe a dosen sponys. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMviii^v A thyng done, parauenture a dosyn yere before. 15.. A Pore Helpe 335 in W. C. Hazlitt Remains Early Pop. Poetry Eng. III. 264 And feche in my cosens By the whole dosens. a1555 J. Bradford in J. Strype Eccles. Mem. (1721) III. App. xlv. 133 Halfe a Dossen of grene Salletts. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa ii. ii. 172 Cardinals that are made by the dozens. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 203 A dozen of Knives. 1734 A. Pope Sober Advice from Horace 8 Dangers on Dangers! obstacles by dozens! 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. 58 I saw some dozens of these little animals. 1841 R. W. Emerson Spiritual Laws in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 154 There are not..more than a dozen persons. a1897 Mod. Six dozen pencils. 1898 G. B. Shaw Philanderer I. iii. 133 There are dozens of men who would give their souls for a look from me. 1913 D. H. Lawrence in Sat. Westm. Gaz. 6 Sept. 9/3 Dozens of men were lounging round the cart. 1961 M. Kenny Spanish Tapestry ii. i. 125 Dozens of tailors squat over their sewing. 1986 N.Y. Times 23 Apr. b9/6 The new league signed dozens of high N.F.L. draft choices. b. Elliptical (with a noun of measure, etc., understood). dozen of bread: a dozen loaves. dozen of beer, dozen of ale, dozen of wine, etc., i.e. a dozen pots or bottles; hence rump(-steak) and a dozen: see quot. 1893. to give one two dozen, i.e. lashes. ΚΠ 1574 J. Baret Aluearie D 938 A dosen of bread, duodeni, vel duodecim panes. 1574 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 376 Payed for dozen of breade..iiij^s. 1677 Lady Chaworth in 12th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1890) App. v. 37 A dozen of Margett ale. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 308 ‘I'll bet a rump and dozen’, said Pleydell. 1835 C. Shaw Let. 6 Dec. in Personal Mem. & Corr. (1837) II. 453 I ordered them..to receive two dozen each, being caught in the act. 1839 A. Somerville Hist. Brit. Legion iii. 42 He was tied up, and..took his two dozen. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 4 Feb. 8/3 The stake being a ‘rump-steak and a dozen’... It was explained that it was a dinner and as much as you liked to drink. c. With qualifying words. baker's dozen (see baker's dozen n. at baker n. Compounds 1), devil's dozen, long dozen (see long dozen n. at long adj.¹ and n.¹ Compounds 4a), printer's dozen: thirteen. brown dozen (obsolete) or round dozen: a full dozen. thirteen, (etc.) to the dozen: see quots. to talk nineteen to the dozen: to talk very fast, or to excess. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > twelve > group or set of twelve dozen1340 brown dozen?1499 zodiac1560 round dozena1572 twelve1573 quest?1589 jury1592 dodecade1659 the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > eleven to ninety-nine > [noun] > thirteen thirteenc1000 devil's dozen1831 ?1499 J. Skelton Bowge of Courte (de Worde) sig. Biij^v Haue at the hasarde or at the dosen browne. 1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epist. 37 Pay it you with aduauntage, at the least thirteene to the dozen. 1598 in Lambert 2000 years of Guild Life (1892) 308 All the saide Company will deliver forthe theire breade..xiij^ten to the dozen. 1820 Ld. Byron Blues i. 36 A round dozen of authors and others. 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 343/2 Instead of one kick, he deserves and gets a devil's dozen. 1872 ‘Ouida’ Fitz's Election 210 She..generally talked nineteen to the dozen. †2. A kind of kersey or coarse woollen cloth: see quot. 1552. (Usually in plural.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > coarse or rough > kersey > type of > specific dozen1523 checkarsey1552 ordinary1552 1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 1 Northerne whites, commonly named and called dosins. 1552 Act 5 & 6 Edw. VI c. 6. §13 All Devonshire Kersies called Dozens..shall contain in Length at the Water between twelve and thirteen Yards. 1557 Act 4 & 5 Philip & Mary c. 5. §10 Every Devonshire Kersie, called Dosson. 1640 Tables Rates & Duties in J. Entick New Hist. London (1766) II. 179 Woollen Drapery —— Devonshire dozens..Northern dozens. 1721 C. King Brit. Merchant II. 309 English Clothes called Dozens. †3. The town-council of a burgh. Scottish. Obsolete. [‘Probably so called because it originally consisted of twelve members’ (Donaldson Supp. to Jamieson). Compare also douzaine n.] ΚΠ 1416 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. Oct. (Jam. Supp.) Aldermannus pro presenti anno, one dene of gild..one bursator, thirty two of lie dusane. 1418 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. Oct. The dusane is callit ‘duodecim consules et limitatores’. 1492 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. 19 Oct. Ordanit be the hale dusane of the town. 1574 in Peebles Burgh Rec. †4. Corruptly used for Anglo-Norman dizeyne (French dixaine) a tithing, or group of ten households. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1292 Britton i. xiii. [xii.] §1 Et voloms qe touz soint en dizeyne [v.rr. duzeyne, dozein] et pleviz par dizeyners [v.rr. dozeyners, dozainers].] 15.. Act 18 Edw. II (Berthelet 1543) If al the chiefe pledges or their dosens bee come. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. X4/2 Now there are no other Dozens but Leetes. 1624 Termes de la Ley at Deciner Deciner is not now used for the chiefe man of a Dozein, but for him that is sworne, to the Kings peace. 5. the dozens: (in African-American usage) a game or ritualized exchange of verbal insults, usually about the family (esp. the mother) of one's opponent or opponents: (see quot. 1984); to play the dozens U.S.: to engage in a game of ritualized verbal insults and ridicule, usually about family (esp. the mother), with one or more other people. to put (etc., a person) in the dozens (also dozen) U.S. colloquial: to start a verbal exchange of insults and ridicule with (a person), esp. by insulting his or her mother. Cf. signify v. 6, sound v.¹ 3d. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > utter invective or abuse [verb (intransitive)] > ritually to play the dozens1928 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)] > call names > ritually to put (etc., a person) in the dozens (also dozen)1928 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others sitisota1400 papsea1450 half-bowl1477 pluck at the crow1523 white and black1555 running game1581 blow-pointa1586 hot cocklesa1586 one penny1585 cockelty bread1595 pouch1600 venter-point1600 hinch-pinch1603 hardhead1606 poor and rich1621 rowland-hoe1622 hubbub1634 handicap?a1653 owl1653 ostomachy1656 prelledsa1660 quarter-spellsa1660 yert-point1659 bob-her1702 score1710 parson has lost his cloak1712 drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754 French Fox1759 goal1765 warpling o' the green1768 start1788 kiss-in-the-ring1801 steal-clothes1809 steal-coat1816 petits paquets1821 bocce1828 graces1831 Jack-in-the-box1836 hot hand1849 sparrow-mumbling1852 Aunt Sally1858 gossip1880 Tambaroora1882 spoof1884 fishpond1892 nim1901 diabolo1906 Kim's game1908 beaver1910 treasure-hunt1913 roll-down1915 rock scissors paper1927 scissors cut paper1927 scissors game1927 the dozens1928 toad in the hole1930 game1932 scissors paper stone1932 Roshambo1936 Marco Polo1938 scavenger hunt1940 skish1940 rock paper scissors1947 to play chicken1949 sounding1962 joning1970 arcade game1978 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [verb (intransitive)] > other specific games to give a woman a green gowna1586 to play the dozens1928 to play chicken1949 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [verb (transitive)] > involve in ritualized verbal insults to put (etc., a person) in the dozens (also dozen)1928 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > ritual exchange the dozens1962 1928 R. Bradford Ol' Man Adam an' his Chillun 12 And yar he come puttin' me in de dozens. Cou'se I busted him wid a rock. I'd bust anybody which put me in de dozens. 1928 R. Fisher Walls of Jericho 9 For it is the gravest of insults, this so-called ‘slipping in the dozens.’ To disparage a man is one thing; to disparage his family is another. 1933 E. Caldwell God's Little Acre x. 142 If you want to play the dozens, you're at the right homestead. 1935 D. L. Cohn God shakes Creation vi. 161 Another prolific source of shootings and stabbings flows from what they call ‘putting 'em in de dozens’. This is a form of Rabelaisian banter engaged in by two or more Negroes. At a gathering one Negro may begin by saying, ‘Yo' mammy hists her tail like a cat.’.. Aspersion after aspersion is cast. 1939 J. Dollard in American Imago Nov. 7 These reactions of concealment and shame convinced me that playing the Dozens is not an orgy of licentious expression for lower-class Negroes; all know that the themes treated are in general forbidden, some refuse to play the game and still others are very resentful and defensive at the mere thought of it. 1941 W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee xxiii. 301 ‘Some fool nigger puts you in the dozen.’.. ‘What's putting you in the dozen?’.. ‘Well,’ said Ford, modest and hesitant, ‘that's talking about your mommer.’ 1942 Z. N. Hurston Dust Tracks on Road xii. 225 The bookless may have difficulty in reading a paragraph in a newspaper, but when they get down to ‘playing the dozens’ they have no equal in America. 1942 Amer. Notes & Queries 1 156/1 ‘Playing the Dozens’... This is a widely used phrase among the Negroes in North Carolina (and very likely in most of the South). 1962 R. D. Abrahams in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 299 One will..find girls making dozens-type remarks. 1970 R. D. Abrahams Positively Black iv. 88 He got your whole family in the dozens and your sister on the shelf. 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 131 ‘Chum,’ he said,..‘we have a game we got we call the dozens.’ 1973 Black World Aug. 58/2 Could play the dozens for days, talk about your momma bad enough to make you cry. 1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. July–Aug. 44/3 All you have to do to keep them in their proper place, which is deep in the dozens, is to pat your feet and snap your fingers. 1983 J. E. Wideman in Callaloo Feb. 46 I don't say anything nasty about Brother, but there is no sense in putting anybody in the dozens. 1984 Maledicta 1983 7 183 Many cultures have cursing and counter-cursing games, such as the Black American ‘dozens’. The purpose of the dozens is to test the participants' ability to take abuse without reacting. The participants must have a response, they must not show hurt, and they must not react with violence. 1990 S. Morgan Homeboy xix. 123 The style was walkin' slow, drinkin' plenty of water, and doin' your own time; the art was lightin' cigarets from wall sockets, playin' the dozens, cuttin' up dream jackpots, and slowin' your metabolism to a crawl. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2021). dozenv. Brit. /ˈdəʊz(ə)n/, U.S. /ˈdoʊz(ə)n/, Scottish English /ˈdoz(ə)n/ Forms: Middle English doysen, Middle English–1700s dosen, 1500s dosin, 1700s– dozen (1800s dozzen). Origin: Probably a borrowing from early Scandinavian. Etymology: Probably of Norse origin, representing an inchoative verb in -na , from the stem of doze v. Scottish and northern dialect. 1. transitive. To stun, stupefy, daze.But apparently found only in past participle, which might belong to an intransitive verb: cf. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > dullness of sense perception > dull (the senses) [verb (transitive)] > stun asweveOE stonyc1330 astone1340 astony1340 stouna1400 stounda1400 stuna1400 stoynec1450 dozen1487 astonish1530 benumb1530 daunt1581 dammisha1598 still1778 silence1785 to knock, lay (out), etc., cold1829 to lay out1891 out1896 wooden1904 to knock rotten1919 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > render unable [verb (transitive)] > render powerless > render powerless or helpless stuna1400 dozen1487 palsy?1615 paralyse1764 palsify1882 the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > make emotionally unfeeling [verb (transitive)] > deaden or dull the emotions stupefy?a1425 dullc1440 benumbc1485 slumber?1533 extinguish1540 extinct1542 numb1561 damp1570 hebetate1574 daunt1581 frostbite1593 hebete1597 blunt1600 unedgea1625 engross1626 astonish1635 consopite1647 bate1649 opiate1650 blura1653 hebescate1657 torpefy1808 dozena1810 dullify1838 hebetize1845 chloroform1849 narcotize1852 sodden1863 vastate1892 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xviii. 126 Mowbray..had beyne doysnyt [1489 Adv. dosnyt] in the ficht. a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2188 in Poems (1981) 83 Both deif and dosinnit. a1810 R. Tannahill Poet. Wks. (1844) 86 Dorothy, dozened wi' living her lane. 2. transitive. To make insensible, torpid, or powerless; to benumb. (Only in past participle.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > physical insensibility > render physically insensible [verb (transitive)] astone1340 dead1382 stony1382 dazea1400 astonish1530 benumb1530 mortifya1533 numb1561 dozen1576 pave1635 deaden1684 torpedoa1772 torpefy1808 1576 Trial E. Dunlop in P.H. Brown Scot. bef. 1700 (1893) 212 The merch of the bane was consumit and the blude dosinit. a1796 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) I. 225 My dearest member nearly dozen'd. a1837 J. D. Carrick in Whistle-Binkie (1838) 1st Ser. 113 Birds..Dozen'd sit on the frosted spray. 3. intransitive. To become torpid or benumbed. ΚΠ 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. ii A dish o' married love right soon grows cauld And dozens down to nane. a1774 R. Fergusson Poems (1785) 194 The birds..Dozen in silence on the bending spray. Derivatives ˈdozened adj. benumbed, torpid. ΚΠ 1724 A. Ramsay Tea-table Misc. II. 119 Thou dosend drone. 1828 J. T. Brockett Gloss. N. Country Words Dozened, spiritless, impotent, withered. 1833 J. Galt in Fraser's Mag. 8 651 With a natural inclination (as all old bachelors have) to be dozened. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1340v.1487
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