A flexible, catch-all word that shifts meaning depending on context. In its cleanest form, doings are activities, achievements, or social events — 'the doings at the community hall' or 'his recent doings at work.' Colloquially it also serves as a placeholder for anything the speaker doesn't want to name directly, making it a useful tool for polite vagueness. In dated Australian slang it carried a vulgar sense referring to sewage. In modern everyday speech, doings most often just means goings-on.
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Which is curious because she has put in all the work to uncover Doug’s criminality and wrong doings, and do what an opposition should do. I hope this isn’t a symptom of the US mistakes in elections.
I heard about all the doings at the village fete from my neighbour, who apparently won the cake competition again.
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deeds, achievements.
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social events.
“Sadly the NY Times has become a softy paper that soothes instead of hammers the administration's evil doings.”
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(Australia, vulgar, dated) sewage.
“Let’s please not forget Ukraine and the evil doings by Putin’s Russia I know all eyes are focused on Trump’s war on Iran”
“Tomorrow there is council voting doings here. I'll be voting early as usual.”
“Which is curious because she has put in all the work to uncover Doug’s criminality and wrong doings, and do what an opposition should do. I hope this isn’t a symptom of the US mistakes in elections.”
“Eric is Obama's doings. But just being in the vicinity of Trump made the fetal genes for white nationalist stupidity dominant.”
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