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dood

The origin and history of dood.

Etymology

A back-formation from dudhwallah, doodwallah ("milk-man", literally "milk-ward"), with the wallah of milk reinterpreted as a wallah of camels through a misremembering of the Bengali word for "camel", উট (uṭ).

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