doo

English

Etymology

1950s, from child speak.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: do͞o, IPA^(key): /duː/
• (US) enPR: do͞o, IPA^(key): /du/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dʉː/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: do (general), dew, due (yod-dropping)

Noun

doo

1. (childish) feces, particularly that of a dog.

   Synonyms: BM, doo-doo, doody, poo, poo-poo, poop

Interjection

doo

1. (music) Used as a scat word in singing.
   • 1995, Phil Farrand, The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers: Volume 2:

     (Ever feel like you've just entered... The Twilight Zone? Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo....)

   • 2006, Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music, page 272:

     […] the bloke who sang about coloured girls going 'doo de doo de doo doo d'de doo de doo de doo' had once had this thing with the guy who produced the debut albums by the Stooges and Patti Smith.

Related terms

• doo-wop

See also

See also

• king of the doos

Anagrams

• ODO, OOD

Aiwoo

Pronoun

doo

1. (interrogative) what
2. (interrogative) how

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Galician

Verb

doo

1. first-person singular present indicative of doar
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of doer

Gooniyandi

Noun

doo

1. cave

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish dub, from Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“black”).

Adjective

doo

1. black
2. inky

   Synonym: dooagh

Derived terms

• Yn Vooir Ghoo (“the Black Sea”)

Noun

doo m (genitive singular doo, plural dooghyn)

1. ink

Derived terms

Verb

doo

1. to ink

Mutation

See also

Navajo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation 1

• IPA^(key): /tòː/

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Particle

doo

1. Part of the negative correlative:

   doo ... da

   doo yáʼátʼééh da ― it is not good

2. With a nominalizer, forms a negative noun phrase:

   doo yáʼátʼéehii ― that which isn’t good

   doo naalnishii ― the one who isn’t working

   doo bénáshniihígíí ― that which I don’t remember

3. With a verb + -góó, forms a negative conditional:

   Doo naashnishgóó níká adeeshwoł. ― If I’m not working, I’ll help you.

Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

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Verb

doo

1. Abbreviation of dooleeł (“it will be”).
2. When paired with ńtʼééʼ, forms a conditional:

   Dine bizaad bóhooshʼaah doo ńtʼééʼ. ― I should have studied Navajo.

   Éí nizhóní doo ńtʼééʼ. ― That would have been nice; that could have been nice.

See also

• dóó
• -dóó

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

doo

1. (obsolete) past plural of døy

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ou
• Homophone: dou-o
• Hyphenation: do‧o

Verb

doo

1. first-person singular present indicative of doar

Rohingya

Etymology

Compare Assamese দা (da, “a big knife”)

Noun

doo

1. knife

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English douf, from Old English *dūfe (compare woman's given name Dūfe).

Akin to Old High German tūba (“dove, pigeon”), Icelandic dúfa (“dove, pigeon”), Dúfa (woman's first name)), Danish dove, pigeon, Norwegian Bokmål due (“dove, pigeon”), Norwegian Nynorsk due (“dove, pigeon”) and Swedish duva (“dove, pigeon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duː/, /dʌu/

Noun

doo (plural doos)

1. dove, pigeon (bird of the dove and pigeon family: Columbidae)
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.

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Derived terms

• King of the Doos (“English Carrier (an old domestic pigeon breed)”)

Solon

Noun

doo

1. song

References

• Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Dagur Elements in Solon Evenki, 2012.

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English dough.

Noun

doo (n class, plural doo)

1. (Sheng) money

   Synonym: pesa

References

Teposcolula Mixtec

Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *ⁿdòòʔ.

Noun

doo

1. cane

Derived terms

References

• Alvarado, Francisco de (1593) Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 43v: “caña de comer. doo.”