Doris

  1. Proper noun.  (Greek mythology) The daughter of Oceanus, wife of Nereus and mother of fifty sea-nymphs or nereids.
  2. Proper noun.  (zoology, mollusca) A genus marine of mollusca having a growth of branchiae on their backs.
  3. Proper noun.  (given name, female) , taken to regular use in the end of the 19th century.
  4. Proper noun.  (British, slang) One's girl friend, wife or significant other.
  5. Adjective.  (Cockney rhyming slang) gay.

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