dole - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dəʊl/, /dɔʊl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /dol/
- Rhymes: -əʊl
- Homophone: dhole
From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl (“portion, share, division, allotment”), from Proto-Germanic *dailą (“part, deal”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰayl- (“part, watershed”). Cognate with Old Church Slavonic дѣлити (děliti, “divide”). More at deal.
dole (third-person singular simple present doles, present participle doling, simple past and past participle doled)
to distribute in small amounts
dole
- Money or other goods given as charity.
- c. 1690, John Dryden, Eleonora:
So sure the dole, so ready at their call, / They stood prepar'd to see the manna fall. - 1863, J[oseph] Sheridan Le Fanu, “In Which Captain Devereux’s Fiddle Plays a Prelude to ‘Over the Hills and Far Away’”, in The House by the Church-yard. […], volume I, London: Tinsley, Brothers, […], →OCLC, pages 307–308:
Devereux […] was beholden, not only for his fun, but occasionally for his daily bread and even his liberty, to those benovolent[_sic_] doles.
- c. 1690, John Dryden, Eleonora:
- Distribution; dealing; apportionment.
- c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising
At her general dole, / Each receives his ancient soul. - 1827, [John Keble], “Seventh Sunday after Trinity”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the Year, volume II, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [B]y W. Baxter, for J. Parker; and C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], →OCLC, page 26:
Go not away, thou weary soul: / Heaven has in store a precious dole / Even on Bethsaida's cold and darksome height, [...]
- c. 1650s, John Cleveland, Upon Phillis Walking in a Morning before Sun-rising
- (informal) Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits.
Synonyms: (UK) pancrack, (Canada) pogey
I get my dole paid twice a week.
I've been on the dole for two years now.- 1986, Morrissey, Johnny Marr (lyrics and music), “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others”, in The Queen is Dead, performed by The Smiths:
From the ice age to the dole age / There is but one concern / I have just discovered - 1996, Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes, page 107:
The men sit because they′re worn out from walking to the Labour Exchange every morning to sign for the dole, discussing the world’s problems and wondering what to do with the rest of the day. - 2002, “Has It Come to This?”, in Mike Skinner (lyrics), Original Pirate Material, performed by The Streets:
Sort your shit out, then roll / Sex, drugs, and on the dole / Some men rise, some men fall
- 1986, Morrissey, Johnny Marr (lyrics and music), “Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others”, in The Queen is Dead, performed by The Smiths:
- A boundary; a landmark.
- 1559, “Injunctions Given by the Queens Majesty, Concerning both the Clergy and Laity, of This Realm, Published Anno Domini Mdlix. being the First Year of the Raign of Our Soveraign Lady Queen _Elizabeth_”, in Anth[ony] Sparrow, compiler, A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Other Publick Records of the Church of England, […], 4th edition, London: […] Blanch Rawlet […], published 1684, →OCLC, paragraph 19, page 73:
Curſed be he which tranſlateth the bounds and dolles of his Neighbor.
- 1559, “Injunctions Given by the Queens Majesty, Concerning both the Clergy and Laity, of This Realm, Published Anno Domini Mdlix. being the First Year of the Raign of Our Soveraign Lady Queen _Elizabeth_”, in Anth[ony] Sparrow, compiler, A Collection of Articles, Injunctions, Canons, Orders, Ordinances, & Constitutions Ecclesiastical, with Other Publick Records of the Church of England, […], 4th edition, London: […] Blanch Rawlet […], published 1684, →OCLC, paragraph 19, page 73:
- (British, dialectal) A void space left in tillage.
(payment to support the unemployed):
money or goods given as charity
- Bulgarian: милости́ня (bg) f (milostínja), подая́ние (bg) n (podajánie)
- Czech: almužna (cs) f, milodar (cs) m
- Finnish: avustus (fi)
- Georgian: მოწყალება (moc̣q̇aleba)
- Hungarian: segély (hu)
- Latin: stips m
- Russian: ми́лостыня (ru) f (mílostynja), подая́ние (ru) n (podajánije), пода́чка (ru) f (podáčka)
- Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: milostinja (sh) f
unemployment benefit
- Bulgarian: по́мощ при безрабо́тица f (pómošt pri bezrabótica)
- Czech: podpora (cs) f, podpora v nezaměstnanosti f
- Dutch: werkloosheidsuitkering (nl) f, steun (nl) m (Netherlands), dop (nl) m (Belgium)
- Finnish: tuki (fi), työttömyyspäiväraha (fi), työttömyysavustus
- French: assedics
- German: Stütze (de) f (colloquial)
- Icelandic: atvinnuleysisbætur f pl
- Russian: посо́бие (ru) n (posóbije), посо́бие по безрабо́тице n (posóbije po bezrabótice)
- Serbo-Croatian:
Roman: naknada za nezaposlenost f - Slovene: socialna pomoč f
- Spanish: paro (es) m (colloquial)
From Middle English doell (“grief”), from Old French doel (compare French deuil), from Late Latin dolus, from Latin doleo.
dole (uncountable)
- (archaic) A sorrow or grief; dolour.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, William Caxton, Le Morte Darthur, Book IX, Chapter xvii, leaf 183r:
Syr said sir gyngalyn I wote not what knyȝt he was / but wel I wote that he sygheth and maketh grete dole.
"Sir, said Sir Gingalin, I wot not what knight he was, but well I wot that he sigheth, and maketh great dole."
- 1485, Thomas Malory, William Caxton, Le Morte Darthur, Book IX, Chapter xvii, leaf 183r:
- (law, Scotland) Dolus.
dole
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
dole m
- “dole”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “dole”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “dole”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
dole
dole
- inflection of doler:
dolē
dole
dole f
dole m inan
dȍle (Cyrillic spelling до̏ле)
dȍle (Cyrillic spelling до̏ле)
- down
Dol(j)e s vladom!
Down with the government!
From Middle English dol, from Old English dāl, from Proto-Germanic *dailą.
dole
- deal
Synonym: daal- 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 36:
- 1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:
Aar's a dole o' sneow apa greound to-die.
There is a deal of snow upon the ground to-day.
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36
- dol
- IPA(key): [doˈlə]
- Hyphenation: do‧le
dole f
- A lake.