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dookie en · NOUN · etymology 1

Etymology

In Scots, dookie, doukit, and douker (terms related to the British English duck, equivalent to the American English dunk) have all been used to refer to Baptists. Hence a dookie in Scots is, jocularly, someone who ducks or dunks people in water when baptising them.

Meanings

1. (Scotland) swimming costume, bathing suit

Forms

dookie en · ADJ · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈduːki/

Etymology

Probably clipping of doo-doo + -kie (diminutive suffix), later repopularized by the 1989 film No Holds Barred and later still the 1994 Green Day album Dookie.

Meanings

1. (US, not-comparable, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang) Of jewelry: ostentatiously thick.
   • 2000 – Ugly Duckling song "Exclusive Snipps": "[Young] Einstein got a dookie gold rope"

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Synonyms

feces · dukey

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dookie en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /ˈduːki/

Etymology

Probably clipping of doo-doo + -kie (diminutive suffix), later repopularized by the 1989 film No Holds Barred and later still the 1994 Green Day album Dookie.

Meanings

1. (US, countable, qualifier:African-American Vernacular, slang, uncountable) Feces.
   • "That stuff won't be worth a lump of dookie in court. It wouldn't be at all hard for Geale to pull a few strings and get documented permission for having each one of those items." 2002, – Jarrett Oliver, Private Eyes, page 125:
   • "He stepped in some cow waste; it serves him right. Look at him dancing to get that dookie off those ruined sneakers! Ha-ha-ha! Get down homie!" 2002, – Ashaki Boelter, Hate Begets Hate, page 69:
   • 2000 – The Simpsons episode "Little Big Mom" Bart: Can I go to the bathroom? Otto: Uh-uh! Say it in snowboard lingo. Bart: Uh... I've gotta blast a dookie? Otto: Dook on!
   • So Alley found a job Scooping up dookie on the streets 2005 – Ashaki Boelter: In the Name of Love!: All-4-Love Series 2 of 3 http://books.google.com/books?q=%22So+Alley+found+a+job+Scooping+up+dookie+on+the+streets%22&btnG=Search+Books (Reckless Review)

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Deriveds

dookie hole · dookie braid · take a dookie

Synonyms

excrement · shit · poop

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dookie en · NOUN · etymology 3

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of dukey (“penny gaff”).
   alt of dukey
   • There are three or four performances a night at a dookie, and the audience is usually composed of juvenile harlots […] 1889, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, page 321:

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