doh
exclamation/dəʊ/
/dəʊ/
(also d'oh)
(informal)- used when you have just said or done something that you know is stupid
- Doh! That was the biggest mistake ever.
- D’oh! I wasn’t supposed to know about that.
Word Originmid 18th cent.: from Italian do, an arbitrarily chosen syllable replacing ut, taken from a Latin hymn.Word OriginUsed by Homer Simpson in The Simpsons television series.Want to learn more?
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