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▪ I. doing, vbl. n.|ˈduːɪŋ|
[f. do v. + -ing1.]
1. a. The action of the verb do; action, proceeding, conduct; performance or execution of something. Esp. in colloq. phr. to take a bit of (or lot of, some) doing: to require all one's efforts; to be difficult to do.
c1325Song Mercy 129 in E.E.P. (1862) 122 In vre doinge. c1460Fortescue Abs. & Lim. Mon. ix, This maner off doynge hath be so ofte practised. a1533Ld. Berners Huon c. 327 In the doynge is all the mater. 1638Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) Introd. 40 It shall not be called your..doeing, what shall be done..by another. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. iv. 62 The faculties..necessary to the doing of any thing. 1842Tennyson St. Sim. Styl. 121 'Tis their own doing; this is none of mine. 1936Discovery Oct. 332/2 The pain and swelling combined to knock Amundsen completely out for some time. And that took a lot of doing. 1964L. Nkosi Rhythm of Violence ii. ii. 31 Kitty...Did everything go according to plan? Jimmy. Took a bit of doing, but with talent and extremely good sense on our part we pulled it off. 1969Time 28 Feb. 49 His long-suffering wife..and their six kids put up with him, which takes some doing.
b. euphem. Copulation.
1601Shakes. All's Well ii. iii. 246. a 1637 B. Jonson tr. Fragm. Petron. Arbiter Wks. (Rtldg.) 740. 1675 Cotton Scoffer Scoft 117. 1869 Hazlitt Eng. Prov. 105.
c. A scolding; a thrashing, beating-up; a severe monetary loss. dial. and colloq.
1880W. H. Patterson Gloss. Antrim & Down 31 Doing off, a scolding. 1888G. Bidwell Forging his Chains xxxviii. 418 Punishment for violence against any prison authority..three dozen strokes of the flesh-cutting cat-o'- nine tails,..besides the ex officio preliminary ‘doing’ by the warders. 1897W. S. Maugham Liza of Lambeth xi. 209 She 'as give yer a doin';..an' look at yer eye! 1909J. R. Ware Passing Eng. 113/2 I've had a bad doing this week—lost thirty quid. 1923Hansard Commons 13 July 1782 The hon. Member for Dundee..has given me a tremendous doing. 1959Times 19 Mar. 5/5 The cops gave me a doing. 1968B. Turner Sex Trap xvii. 167 ‘For God's sake, man! You'd get three years if you give him a doing,’ she exclaimed.
2. That which is done; a deed, act, action, performance, transaction, proceeding, piece of business. Usually (now always) in pl.
App. little used in 18th c.; Johnson says ‘now only used in a ludicrous sense, or in low, mean language’.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1681 Lucretia, Th' exilynge of kynges Of Rome for here orible doinges. 1440J. Shirley Dethe K. James (1818) 21 That horribile doyng and faite..at [= that] the said traitours hadde done. 1548–9(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Morning Prayer, That al our doinges may be ordred by thy gouernaunce. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iv. i. 63 Volumes of report Run..Vpon thy doings. 1611Bible Prov. xx. 11 Even a child is known by his doings. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 720 A Reverend Sire..of thir doings great dislike declar'd. 1799J. Jay Corr. & Papers (1893) IV. 259 Our conversation here turns so much on Great Britain and (as some phrase it) her doings. 1816Scott Antiq. xlii, You'll do this poor ruined family the best day's doing that has been done them since Redhand's days. 1818Keats Let. 13 Jan. (1958) I. 205 Lawk! Molly there's been such doings. 1825Coleridge Lett. Convers. etc. II. 212 My thoughts, wishes, and prayers follow you in all your doings and strivings. 1923Kipling Irish Guards in Gt. War I. 216 The talk in the camps turned on great doings—everything connected with the front line was ‘doings’. 1949E. Pound Pisan Cantos lxxx. 92 Stewing with rage Concerning the landlady's doings with a lodger unnamed.
3. with adverbs or adverbial phrases: see do v.
c1340Hampole Prose Tr. 12 Consaile es doynge awaye of worldes reches, and of all delytes of all thyngez þat mane may be tagyld with. 1483Cath. Angl. 103/1 A Doynge welle, beneficencia. 1814P. Hawker Diary (1893) I. 122 The house was shabby for want of new doing up.
4. pl.
a. Materials for a specified adjunct of a dish or meal; also, a made or fancy dish. U.S. local.
1838E. Flagg Far West II. 72 ‘Well, stranger, what'll ye take: wheat-bread and chicken fixens, or corn-bread and common doins?’ by the latter..being signified bacon. 1843‘R. Carlton’ New Purchase II. xl. 58 A snug breakfast of chicken fixins, eggs, ham-doins, and corn slapjacks. 1859Knickerbocker LIII. 317 Tell Sal to..have some flour-doins and chicken-fixins for the stranger. Ibid. 318 Instead of ‘store-tea’ they had only saxifrax tea-doins, without milk. 1880J. C. Harris Uncle Remus i. 18 Sposen' you drap roun' termorrer an' take dinner wid me. We ain't got no great doin's at our house, but I speck de old 'oman..kin sorter scramble roun' 'en git up sump'n. 1908Dialect Notes III. iv. 306 Doing(s),..prepared dishes, especially fancy dishes.
b. U.S. colloq. Lace, trimming, ornaments, etc., of a dress.
a1847W. T. Porter Quarter Race Kentucky 84 [The girls] came pourin out of the woods.., fixed out in all sorts of fancy doins, from the broad-striped homespun to the sun⁓flower calico. 1856Knickerbocker XLVII. 406 Pretty girl that in the black fixings and white arrangements, with blue doings.
c. Applied to any concomitant, adjunct, or ‘etcetera’, or anything that happens to be ‘about’ or to be wanted. orig. War slang.
1919Athenæum 25 July 664/2 ‘Doings’, practically anything: ‘Pass the doings.’ 1925Fraser & Gibbons Soldier & Sailor Words 80 Doings, the, a word with every kind of meaning and application. E.g., In quarters, ‘Pass the doings’, might mean bread, salt, a pack of cards, or anything at hand. ‘I'll have a drop of the doings’ (i.e., whatever drink there is going). ‘Here comes Jerry with the doings’ (i.e., an enemy aeroplane sighted). 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 101 Doings for gravy, salt, sugar, pepper, milk or anything wanted at a particular time for a particular purpose. a1935T. E. Lawrence Mint (1955) ii. xvi. 144 Cook chuckled, snatched somebody's blacking-tin and with three swift passes of a boot-brush painted his doings jet-black. 1938G. Greene Brighton Rock v. i. 193 Her skirt drawn up above her knees she waited for him with luxurious docility... ‘You've got the doings, haven't you?’ 1938S. V. Benét Thirteen o'Clock 248 He's got a little doin's of a black moustache.
Add:[4.] d. to do one's doings = to do one's business s.v. business n. 15 c; ‘to go to the lavatory’; hence, excrement, excreta. colloq.
1967P. Bailey At the Jerusalem III. 191 ‘I did my doings. Because of the journey.’ ‘That's good.’ 1984P. Beale Partridge's Dict. Slang (ed. 8) 326/1 ‘There's a lump of bird's doings on the windowsill.’
▪ II. doing, ppl. a.|ˈduːɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That does, acts, performs, etc. (see do v.); spec. actively engaged or occupied, busy; energetic.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 308 One while I wil be dooing with this booke, another while with that. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Rebuelto, cavallo rebuelto..a lustie doing horse. 1646Bp. Maxwell Burden Issachar in Phenix (1708) II. 273 The active and doing men. 1792Ld. Grenville in Lecky Eng. in 18th C. (1887) VI. 54 All that the most doing Government could do in twenty years. |