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Dunging

A small village in Essex that vanished when a ringroad diverted traffic away from it.

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Dada de Doodoo

A humorous catchphrase that was used by a group of three schoolboys in a secondary school near Peterborough in the middle part of the last third of the 1970s.


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Decidedly

Definition: adverb, an intensifier that modifies adjectives such as daft, delusional, delirious, and delicious


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Dudley Moore

Far more potty-mouthed than Ernie Wise or Ronnie Corbett.

See also: Peter Cook, Eric Morecombe, Ronnie Barker.
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Derek and Clyde {family entertainment}


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Dawling: you look gorgeous dawling.
Who would thumb down some afternoon delight?😡


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Derbyshire County Cricket Club

"The Tories are now looking at DCCC home games as an alternative to Rwanda after the Home Secretary's defeat in the High Court."


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DADA

Dada was an art movement formed during the First World War in Zurich in negative reaction to the horrors and folly of the war. The art, poetry and performance produced by dada artists is often satirical and nonsensical in nature.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/dada


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Double Dipping {when you go in the water twice}


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Desperado {move in chess, desperate attempt to survive. Also youngsters drink}


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Decade

"There are decades where nothing happens on the General Forum; and there are weeks where decades happen." ~ me talking about RHP shortly after watching a documentary about Lenin.


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Doh!

Note:not the same as Duh!

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Down [to town]

"Dahling, shall we gah dahn to tha tine?"

~ posh English dialect


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Diddums

Note: slightly more mocking if preceded by "Ah".

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Dossy Bibblings

Note: One of my beloved childhood cats. I reveal this personal information in the full knowledge that it my might be used against me in "banter" at a later date.


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Dictive

From the French for having or showing a strong or unreasoning desire for revenge but without being fired up by wine

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