Proper noun

1. The daughter of Oceanus, wife of Nereus and mother of fifty sea-nymphs or nereids.
2. A genus marine of mollusca having a growth of branchiae on their backs.
3. , taken to regular use in the end of the 19th century.
4. One's girl friend, wife or significant other.

Quotations

• And snowy neckd Doris, and milkewhite Galathæa.

• 1866 Mary A. Prescott: Doris Daylesford, A Story. Beadle's Monthly Magazine of To-day.Vol.II. page 149:

  My Doris - may I call you that, dearest?"

  "Call me Sappho, call me Chloris, call me Lalage, or Doris - only call me thine," I should have answered, if it had not been a little too sentimental. - - - I am afraid I omitted to state, in the proper place, that Doris is a name which has descended through a dozen generations of our family, that it belongs to myself as well as to my niece,

• 1989 Judy Carter: Stand-up Comedy: A Book Dell Publ.1989. ISBN 0440502438 page 35:

  I've never met an old person named Judy. Now that's true. Maybe something happens to girls with young names like Debby, Judy, and Susie. At a certain age they make you change it to Doris, Edna, or Myrtle.

Etymology 2

Proper noun

1. borrowed from English usage, popular in the 1920s and the 1930s.

Proper noun

1. borrowed from English usage, popular in the mid-twentieth century.

Proper noun

1. borrowed from English usage, popular in the 1920s and the 1930s.