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doney

noun

  1. girl, sweetheart, darling, young woman, woman

    May 7, 1927, Uncle Dave Macon, "Tell Her To Come Back Home", Vocalion 5153

Where it comes from

Perhaps from Catalan dona or Spanish doña; perhaps introduced to England by sailors who had visited Spanish or Italian portshttp://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=54922&messages=35

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry doney (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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