doodar

[bigC]

Somebody wrote:

“Just looked at your watch again Jason, really is the dogs doodars mate!, in a watch discussion.

What is doodar?

What does “the dogs doodars mate” mean?

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Somebody? Who? It's a mess.

It should be dog's, not dogs, and there should be a comma after again. There's also another comma missing. Do you know where? And quotation marks come in pairs. There's no such thing as a single quotation mark in English.

Have you looked up doodar? If you can't find it, it's not a word.

 

[GoesStation]

I'd hazard a guess that it's antipodeal slang.

 

[bigC]

I can’t find any explanation for “doodar”, but it appears on internet, it is mainly used as a username in discussions.

 

[bigC]

I have no idea if it is "doodah".

Assume it is "doodah", what does "really is the dogs doodahs mate!" mean?

 

[Rover_KE]

See:

doodah , us and canadian doodad n informal

• an unnamed thing, esp an object the name of which is unknown or forgotten

(Collins)The dictionary should have added '...or disguised for the sake of propriety'.

Synonyms include 'thingamajig, thingy, doofer, doodad, whatyemacallit, whatsit, doings, thingamabob',

It's not only antipodean: anything highly prized/admired/valued is (informally) said to be the dog's b*ll*cks.

 

[emsr2d2]

We use "doodah" in BrE when we're referring to a thing we can't remember the name of or to something that both the speaker and listener know the name of. When my mum wants someone to give her the TV remote control, she says "Pass me the doodah".

In the original, as you now know, the speaker uses "the dog's doodahs" instead of the cruder "the dog's b*ll*cks", meaning something exceptionally good.

 

[jutfrank]

Just looked at your watch again Jason, really is the dogs doodars mate!

I've just looked at your watch again, Jason. It really is a very fine piece, my friend!

 

[Raymott]

There's a comma missing after 'doodah'. It's not about a dog's doodah's mate at all.

 

[Charlie Bernstein]

Okay. Then the writer should have written:

“Just looked at your watch again, Jason. Really is the dog's doodahs, mate!" in a watch discussion.

Little things (like commas, apostrophes, quotation marks, and periods) mean a lot!