doylem

plural doylems · alternative doilem · alternative doylum

1. GeordieMackemYorkshirederogatoryslangA stupid person; an idiot.

   We shouldn't speak ill of the dead, but he was a bit of a doylem.

   1996, Stuart Pawson, The Judas Sheep, London: Headline Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 28

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   "Ye're a bloody doylem, you are, ye daft southe'n twat! C'mon, Sally, walk on". Sally looked up at him, then at me, and sat down again, craning her head forward between my arms, and sniffing. Pierre's game was *much* more interesting than walking with Donald. It had muck, and dirt, and some *very* interesting smells.

   1994 September 20, Bob Another beer, please Christ, “Dog story...”, in rec.pets.dogs (Usenet)

   You stupid little fucking halflife, 20 second alone with Infoseek or Altavista would have given you this (Lame) program from 100's of sites run by fucking doylums like your good self

   1999 April 14, Pr0tocol, “BO”, in alt.ph.uk (Usenet)

   The end of another crap gig: we'd played great music — badly — to the usual drunken doylems in a well-strafed WMC.

   2001, Bill Broady, “The Tale of the Golden Bath-Taps”, in In This Block There Lives a Slag...and Other Yorkshire Fables, London: Flamingo, →ISBN, page 207

   A couple of half-decent birds, but otherwise the whole place was some kind of funny farm for disturbed, nonced-up, rat-faced, smegma-sandwich-eating doilems.

   2005, Bernard Hare, Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew, London: Sceptre, →ISBN, page 78

   The shows could then provide a valuable service to society, allowing the divvy and radgie to air their pointless grievances to their heart's content in front of an army of happy daytime TV watching doylems ...and let the police get on with some proper work instead.

   2011, John Donoghue, Police, Crime & 999: The True Story of a Front Line Officer, Leicester, Leicestershire: Matador, →ISBN, page 16

   Synonyms: addle-brain, addlehead, addle pate, airhead, baboon, beanbrain, beetlebrain, beetlehead