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doug | dan |

As an adjective dan is

stretched.

doug

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A diminutive of the male given name Douglas.
  • * 1960 , The Ballad of Peckham Rye , New Directions Publishing, 1999, page 70
    • *Come and have a drink,' he said, 'and my Christian name is Douglas on this side of the Rye, mind that. Dougal Douglas at Meadows Meade and Douglas Dougal a Willis's, mind. Only a formality for the insurance cards and such.'
    'I better call you Doug , and be done with it.'
    English diminutives of male given names

    dan

    English

    (dan rank)

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rank of black belt in martial arts
  • Someone who has achieved a level of black belt

    • Etymology 2

    Uncertain.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) A small truck or sledge used in coal mines.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl)

    Noun

  • (obsolete)
  • * Spenser
    • Old Dan Geoffry, in gently spright / The pure wellhead of poetry did dwell.
  • * Thomson
    • What time Dan Abraham left the Chaldee land.
    (Webster 1913)

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