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dobeying Naval slang.|ˈdəʊbɪɪŋ|
Also dhobeying.
[f. dhobi + -ing1.]
Washing clothes, doing laundry.
1929in F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 37. 1940 Illustr. London News CXCVII. 160 (caption) Destroyer-men doing their ‘dobeying’ on deck. 1955Times 2 June 2/6 Some of the early plays..are the stuff of their lives; swabbing and dobeying being more natural than all the heroics. |
