See doylem in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "1994 September 20, Bob Another beer, please Christ, “Dog story...”, in rec.pets.dogs (Usenet):",
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"ref": "2001, Bill Broady, “The Tale of the Golden Bath-Taps”, in In This Block There Lives a Slag...and Other Yorkshire Fables, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, page 207:",
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"ref": "2005, Bernard Hare, Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew, London: Sceptre, →ISBN, page 78:",
"text": "A couple of half-decent birds, but otherwise the whole place was some kind of funny farm for disturbed, nonced-up, rat-faced, smegma-sandwich-eating doilems.",
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"ref": "2011, John Donoghue, Police, Crime & 999: The True Story of a Front Line Officer, Leicester, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 16:",
"text": "The shows could then provide a valuable service to society, allowing the divvy and radgie to air their pointless grievances to their heart's content in front of an army of happy daytime TV watching doylems ...and let the police get on with some proper work instead.",
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"ref": "2020, Penny Thorpe, The Mothers of Quality Street, London: HarperCollinsPublishers, →ISBN, page 290:",
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"text": "'Now look what you've done, you total doylum! It's half off me!' Mary hissed at her sister.",
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