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dook en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Meanings

1. A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.

Forms

dook en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Meanings

1. (of a ferret) To make a certain clucking sound.
   • The sun has gone down - what's that dooking sound? It must be trick or treating time. I glance across the bedroom floor and I see Chinook and Nikomi's ferret eyes. 2014, Timothy Smith, Chinook the Ferret's Halloween Adventure, page 1:

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Deriveds

dooker

Translations (1)

nl mokken (ferret sound)

dook en · VERB · etymology 2

Etymology

From duck.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative, dialectal) Alternative form of duck.
   alt of duck
   • But anger is a blin' guide — he dooked from the first blow, an' it passed wi' little ill; an' he raised his drawn sword, an' made a wild cut at my head... 1835, James Baillie Fraser, The Highland smugglers, Volume 2:

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Descendants

dowcio (to plunge, to dive)

dook en · NOUN · etymology 3

Etymology

From Dutch doek (“cloth, fabric, canvas”), from Middle Dutch doec, from Old Dutch *dōc, from Proto-West Germanic *dōk, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz (“cloth”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwōg-, *dwōk- (“cloth”). See also duck (cloth).

Meanings

1. (UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable) A strong, untwilled linen or cotton.

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Deriveds

dooky · sail-doock

dook en · NOUN · etymology 4

Meanings

1. (Scotland) A plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc.

Forms

dook en · NOUN · etymology 5

Meanings

1. (slang, uncountable) dookie; feces
   • I'm sick of people messing up my bathroom. […] I don't like seeing logs of dook at the bottom of the bowl when I go in there. 2016, A. F. Knott, The Trainee:

dook en · NOUN · etymology 6

Meanings

1. (England, Northern, Scotland, historical) A heading or roadway following the dip of the strata.

Forms

dook en · NOUN · etymology 7

Meanings

1. (alt-of, pronunciation-spelling) Eye dialect spelling of duke (“a fist”).
   alt of duke
   • Put up your dooks!

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