d Doip Meanings: • Spontaneity; joyfully defying nature In Literature: • "I'd come to fly-fish, and trout were taking flies everywhere. But as the air turned blue I was first distracted by a dinky trout, not ten feet behind me, that began jumping over and over, ludicrously high in the air. This little guy leapt so high so often that I began to laugh. I mean, all earthly creatures are supposedly opportunists -- fish, humans, and transnational corporations alike. By nature we slurp the maximum number of bugs or profit flows via the minimal expenditure of energy, thus aggrandizing our bulk, be it bodily or financial. But this troutlet was defying its nature. There were flies all over the river, any of which it could have effortlessly sipped. It ignored them all to leap effortfully high into the blue, catch nothing, then fall back with a splash that made the same tidy sound every time: Doip! This trout child was jumping not as a career move but in random celebration (Doip!), jumping the way my four-year-old or a good comedy sometimes jumps (Doip!); jumping in spontaneous, reasonless defiance of the whole tragic idea that every effort on Earth must have a bottom line, profit margin, or edible bug at the end of it (Doip!). Edified, I turned upstream -- and spotted an exceedingly large trout troubling the sunset-colored surface, not 0 feet away. I readied my rod. . . . I'd learned a magic word I believed might keep lust from interfering with art. I began waving my wand. Hard- to-describe laws of motion were enacted. Energy gathered and dispersed. Line looped and flew. I noticed, first on the river, then in the sky, that the evening star had shown. Letting fly my one chance, I spoke the magic word into the blue: 'Doip!'" -- David James Duncan, "The War for Norman's River," Sierra Magazine (2000) Dominocus (see hocus pocus) Meanings: • Lord's • Master's Origins: Dominocus is of Latin origin, "apparently a variant (or pun?) of dominicus (Lat.: 'lord's, master's')." 6 Steven Moore, A Reader's Guide to William Gaddis's The Recognitions (1982)