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Dooced vs Doored - What's the difference?

dooced | doored |

As verbs the difference between dooced and doored

is that dooced is (internet slang) dismissed from one's job as a result of one's actions on the internet while doored is (door).

As an adverb dooced

is (dated|dialect) deuced.

dooced

English

Etymology 1

deuce

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • (dated, dialect) Deuced.
  • * 1864 , Charles Dickens, All the Year Round
  • Should have liked to belong to that set, only they drank so dooced hard.
  • * 1878 , John Byrne Leicester Warren, Salvia Richmond
  • "Dooced good fishing in Blankshire," threw in Charlie Mayne.

    Etymology 2

    Coined in 2002 from the pseudonym of American blogger Heather Armstrong.

    Verb

    dooced
  • (internet slang) Dismissed from one's job as a result of one's actions on the Internet.
  • * 2007 , Erik Ringmar, A Blogger's Manifesto
  • Bill Poon in California got dooced from a burger joint when he posted a picture of his boss on MySpace.
  • * 2007 , Laurie J Mullins, Management and Organisational Behaviour
  • Careless blogging can get you dooced .

    doored

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (door)
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    door

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A that ensures the door cannot be opened without the key.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly,
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=20 citation , passage=‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’}}
  • Any flap, etc. that opens like a door.
  • A non-physical into the next world, a particular feeling, a company, etc.
  • (computing, dated) A . See (BBS door).
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    Derived terms

    * at death's door * darken someone's door * door brake * doorgame * door prize * doorstep * front door * get one's foot in the door * show somebody the door * shut the door on * sliding door * stage-door Johnny * up and over door *

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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (cycling) To cause a .
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