doone

doone
 n.— «Or that in Eastern prep-school lexicon of the time, a “doone” was something of a doofus?» —“Doonesbury’s War” by Gene Weingarten Washington Post Oct. 20, 2006. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)

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