It turns out, that you may actually be correct. Almost.
I posted elsewhere, and got feedback that the word may be Dopp, and here is what I was told:
From Quinion's World Wide Words:
Q. From Wiley: "What does the dopp in dopp kit (shaving bag) mean, and where did the term originate?"
A. I am indebted to the American Dialect Society Web archive, and in particular to Jim Rader, for the answer to this question, which otherwise I couldn't find in any of my reference books. The word Dopp is a registered trade mark of a man's toiletry kit. It was designed by Jerome Harris for his uncle Charles Doppelt, a German immigrant to Chicago in the early 1900s. So it's presumably an abbreviated form of Mr Doppelt's family name. The word became widely known during the Second World War when GIs were issued Dopp kits. The company was purchased by Samsonite in the early seventies.
Hm. I always call it a toiletries bag myself, but "toiletries" may be too girly a word for soldiers' taste.
Now that you've discovered the Dop thing, this is probably moot, but being a word junky, I have to quibble with oblutions. I think what you mean is probably ablutions, which means washing and is in Merriam-Webster. Interestingly, it's also apparently in British usage the name given to the building on an army base containing the soldiers' bathrooms. So the Dop kit could rally be a DAB kit. The plot thickens . . .
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but I'm not sure what that means either.
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I posted elsewhere, and got feedback that the word may be Dopp, and here is what I was told:
From Quinion's World Wide Words:
Q. From Wiley: "What does the dopp in dopp kit (shaving bag) mean, and where did the term originate?"
A. I am indebted to the American Dialect Society Web archive, and in particular to Jim Rader, for the answer to this question, which otherwise I couldn't find in any of my reference books. The word Dopp is a registered trade mark of a man's toiletry kit. It was designed by Jerome Harris for his uncle Charles Doppelt, a German immigrant to Chicago in the early 1900s. So it's presumably an abbreviated form of Mr Doppelt's family name. The word became widely known during the Second World War when GIs were issued Dopp kits. The company was purchased by Samsonite in the early seventies.
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Now that you've discovered the Dop thing, this is probably moot, but being a word junky, I have to quibble with oblutions. I think what you mean is probably ablutions, which means washing and is in Merriam-Webster. Interestingly, it's also apparently in British usage the name given to the building on an army base containing the soldiers' bathrooms. So the Dop kit could rally be a DAB kit. The plot thickens . . .
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I'll try to say it with the a, though. :-)
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