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Dutch
Prepositional phrase
uit den ouden doosch
- (humorous, archaising, neologism) Deliberate misspelling of uit de oude doos.
Usage notes
- Used in informal publications as a faux-archaic form. Note that it treats doosch as masculine noun and that the -sch spelling of doos is not etymological and unattested in older texts, so it would (likely unintentionally) be ungrammatical and misspelt according to historical norms.