dooced

British  

/ duːst /

adjective

1. slang to be dismissed from one's employment because of what one has written on a website or blog

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Etymology

Origin of dooced

C21: after the web address of the first person to experience this

Example Sentences

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dooced

"Josh, my bird, here's my guv'nor—here's Alvaston been a-sweating and swearing, writin' o' verses—poetical verses all the morning—which same is dooced queer, Josh, queer, fishy and highly disturbing—burn my neck if t'ain't."

From Our Admirable Betty A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

"I say!" said Fitz-Fulke, gazing at the doctor's costume, "you look dooced smart in those togs, don'tcherknow."

From Condensed Novels: New Burlesques by Bret Harte

I recollect his saying, at Lady Featherstone's, one dooced hot night, as it seemed to us; I recklect his saying that he felt quite cold.

From The Newcomes Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family by William Makepeace Thackeray

“These sort of things are so dooced unpleasant.”

From The Sapphire Cross by George Manville Fenn

"Now I call Dovercourt a dooced nice little place," said Mr. Parker, as he helped her to the "bit of fish," which he told her he had brought down with him from London.

From The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope