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.
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.
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(Australia, vulgar, dated) sewage.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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