doch-an-dorrach

[ dokh-uhn-dor-uhkh ]

/ ˈdɒx ənˈdɒr əx /

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noun Scot., Irish.

a stirrup cup.

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Also doch-an-dorroch, doch-an-dor·ris

[dokh-uhn-dor-is]. /ˈdɒx ənˈdɒr ɪs/.

Origin of doch-an-dorrach

1675–85; compare Irish deoch an dorais drink of the door

Words nearby doch-an-dorrach

docent, Docetae, Docetism, DOCG, doch-an-doris, doch-an-dorrach, Docherty, docile, docility, dock, dockage

How to use doch-an-dorrach in a sentence

My younger, straighter-than-an-arrow son was stopped and arrested in two separate jurisdictions a few years ago.
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A half-an-hour earlier they had been caught in the middle of a mortar barrage in a skirmish with separatists.
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The full translation follows: In the region of Torez, a AN-26 was just shot down, crashing behind the “progress” mine.
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In those accounts, neither Buzzelli nor the eager-for-an-angle reporters dubbed the man a World Trade Center “surfer.”
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Or is he just a straight-as-an-arrow Eagle Scout, far more Clark Kent than Superman?
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They had searched Mortlake House for Alice, and that vain quest had not wasted more than half-an-hour.
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On the first day's journey toward Chang-an-sa the party made good progress.
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Passing through the gate, our friends found themselves at once in the midst of the Chang-an-sa monastery buildings.
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It was the merest baby—half-an-ounce, perhaps—and it fell from the hook into the herbage some yards from the stream.
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In half-an-hour he was sound asleep, and a dead silence reigned in Azalea Lodge.
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