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[f. dool (dole n.2) + owl n.]
An owl (as a symbol of gloom); in quots. transf., a dull, depressing person.
| 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley (1930) xi. 196 When I look at women who's never really been warmed through by a man, well, they seem to me poor dool-owls after all. 1929 ― Pansies 144 The upper classes... Such bloomin' fat-arsed dool-owls. |