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A female deer, immortalized by a song before it was ever defined by one.
means An adult female deer (and, by extension, the female of certain other animals like rabbits and kangaroos).
from Doe comes from Old English 'dā,' a word for the female fallow deer, which has cousins in other old Germanic languages but no certain deeper root beyond that. It padded quietly through English for a thousand years as plain pasture vocabulary — hunters' and farmers' talk — long before Rodgers and Hammerstein grabbed it for 'Do-Re-Mi' and turned it into a pun, a female deer, a name I call myself.
- gender role
- always female, never a buck
- species range
- deer, rabbits, goats, even kangaroos
- money slang
- dough homophone made it slang for cash
- pop culture
- a deer, a female deer, thanks solfège