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Doyle

proper nounnouncommon in dialogue

  • //dɔɪl//

A surname from Irish.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname from Irish.

    But if you really insist she'll retell the unfortunate case of a man named Sean Doyle. […] According to Dr Melinek, Doyle was a bartender in the Big Apple who'd been out drinking with his friend Michael Wright and Wright’s girlfriend on a fateful night back in 2002. It's thought that Wright had believed Doyle was hitting on his girlfriend and the pair got into an argument.

  2. 2

    A census-designated place in Lassen County, California, United States.

Etymology

From Irish Ó Dubhghaill (“descendant of Dougal”).

noun

  1. 1

    An idiot.

Forms

plural
Doyles
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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