Noun: doona
| Singular | doona |
| Plural | doonas |
Sample Sentences
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He had put the doona on sideways. My feet were sticking out. [1983, Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I, Text Publishing, published 2022, page 66:]
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Well when I say it was cool, it was actually cold enough to freeze the nuts off a fruit cake and it took Dad half an hour [...] to get me from under the nice warm doona. [1995, Paul Vautin, Turn It Up!, Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, page 70:]
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Lena pulled the doona over her head. [2005, Josephine Wilson, Cusp, page 211:]
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Doonas can be made of goose feathers, wool or synthetics. Wash them twice a year or even more if you sweat a lot. You can tell it′s time for a wash when the fibres are packed down and lumpy, or the doona smells. [2011, Shannon Lush, Jennifer Fleming, Spotless: Room-by-Room Solutions to Domestic Disasters, unnumbered page:]
Nouns inflected like doona
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Originally a product name, derived from Danish dyne /dyːnə/. Trademark owned by the Tontine Group. See: Danish Nouns '
dyne'.