From <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> (“thirteen, one more than a <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span>”) by analogy, hence “seven, one more than a <span class="searchmatch">half</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span>”. <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> <span class="searchmatch">half</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> (idiomatic, uncommon)...
faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise. <span class="searchmatch">half</span>-<span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> <span class="searchmatch">half</span> a <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> <span class="searchmatch">half</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> 6...
See also: <span class="searchmatch">bakers</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> and <span class="searchmatch">Baker's</span> <span class="searchmatch">Dozen</span> WOTD – 17 November 2017 Possibly from the former practice of <span class="searchmatch">bakers</span> adding a thirteenth loaf of bread to a batch...
few <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> banker's <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> Botany Bay <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> by the <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> cheaper by the <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> daily <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> decimal <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> devil's <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> dime a <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> double <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> dozenal...
ammonia <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> chocolate <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> <span class="searchmatch">half</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> bakership <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> itch <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> percentage <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> salt <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> yeast bakery cakebaker fly <span class="searchmatch">baker</span> sergeant...
from English <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span>. dussan m (genitive singular dussan, plural dussanyn) <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> dussan liauyr (“<span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span>”) lieh-ghussan (“<span class="searchmatch">half</span>-<span class="searchmatch">dozen</span>”) Note: Certain...
automatic <span class="searchmatch">half</span>-barrier level crossing <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> <span class="searchmatch">half</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> by <span class="searchmatch">half</span> centre-<span class="searchmatch">half</span> centre <span class="searchmatch">half</span> cheap at <span class="searchmatch">half</span> the price cut the baby in <span class="searchmatch">half</span> do by <span class="searchmatch">half</span>-measures...
<span class="searchmatch">bakers</span>' <span class="searchmatch">dozens</span> plural of <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span>. [1839], chapter I, in The Factory Lad. Or, The Life of Simon Smike; Exemplifying the Horrors of White Slavery,...
‘It's the <span class="searchmatch">Baker</span> Street division of the detective police force,’ said my companion, gravely; and as he spoke there rushed into the room <span class="searchmatch">half</span> a <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span> of the...
(plural youngers) One who is younger than another. 1882, L. H. Apaque, A <span class="searchmatch">baker's</span> <span class="searchmatch">dozen</span>, page 102: Hugh and Charlie also played fairly well, so perhaps it was...