dood

See also: Dood and -DǪǪD

English

Etymology 1

Back-formation from dudhwallah, doodwallah (“milk-man”, literally “milk-ward”), reinterpreting the wallah of milk as a wallah of camels by dint of misremembrance of the Bengali word for “camel” which is উট (uṭ).

Noun

dood (plural doods)

A riding camel or dromedary.
- 1860, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India, in the Year 1858–9, volume 2, London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, page 25:
  The Chief was lying down beside my dooly, aking a nap while his tent was being prepared, with his head resting on his hand, for he refused to accept the loan of my pillow, when a camel-driver came by, leading a huge dood so carelessly as to bring him right across Sir Colin.
- 1892, George Manville Fenn, Gil the Gummer, Or, The Youngest Officer in the East, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 42:
  “I have never seen it,” he replied, “but I have seen them attack a dood.”
  “What is a dood?”
  “A camel; one of a troop fording the river.”

Etymology 2

Noun

dood (plural doods or doodz)

Eye dialect spelling of dude.
- 1884 August, “The Boston Dude”, in Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer's Monthly Journal, volume 18, number 8:
  "Talk about yer doods," said a Texas stockman, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train last night, "but a leetle the doodest dood I ever seen wuz a feller that come down from Boston into our kentry a year ago las' September."
- 1888 November 17, “The Cook's Soliloquy”, in Time, volume 8, number 223, page 7:
  An' now Oi suppose if Oi don't get thim rolls riddy fer der brikfus' av that small dood that comes ter see Alice, Oi'll niver hear der end av it. Wot do Oi kee-ur? If he gives me a quarter whin he goes, it's more'n he'll do, fer all he's a dood an' all.
- 1925, Collier's - Volume 76, page 34:
  On the dood ranch the dweller from the city can renew his almost forgotten ambition to be one with the rider of the Western plains --the cowpuncher, the Indian fighter, the pony express rider, the buffalo hunter, the scout.

Related terms

d00d

Etymology 3

Noun

dood (plural doods)

(Hong Kong) Alternative form of doot.

Verb

dood (third-person singular simple present doods, present participle dooding, simple past and past participle dooded)

(Hong Kong) Alternative form of doot.

Anagrams

do do, dodo

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dʊət/

Adverb

dood

dead
(figuratively) exhausted; listless; fatigued
Hy het gister dood aangekom.
Yesterday, he arrived exhausted.

Etymology 2

From Dutch dood, from Middle Dutch dôot, from Old Dutch dōth, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz.

Noun

dood (uncountable)

death; the act of dying
the dead; something that is no longer alive
(figuratively) a complete loss

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Dutch doden, from Middle Dutch dôden, from Old Dutch *dōden, from Proto-West Germanic *daudijan, from Proto-Germanic *daudijaną.

Verb

dood (present dood, present participle dodende, past participle gedood)

(transitive) to kill
(transitive) to end permanently

Derived terms

sieldodend

Dutch

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /doːt/
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Hyphenation: dood
Rhymes: -oːt

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch dôot, doet, from Old Dutch dōt, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, German tot, English dead, Danish død.

Adjective

dood (comparative doder, superlative doodst)

dead
De vogel lag dood op de grond.
The bird was lying dead on the ground.

Inflection

Inflection of dood
uninflected	dood
inflected	dode
comparative	doder
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		dood	doder	het doodst het doodste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	dode	dodere	doodste
	n. sing.	dood	doder	doodste
	plural	dode	dodere	doodste
definite		dode	dodere	doodste
partitive		doods	doders	—

Derived terms

Descendants

Afrikaans: dood
Berbice Creole Dutch: doto
Petjo: doot

Adverb

dood

(colloquial, East and West Flanders) A lot.

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch dôot, doet, from Old Dutch dōth, dōt, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz. Compare West Frisian dead, German Tod, English death, Danish død.

Noun

dood m or f (plural doden)

death

Usage notes

To the degree that masculine and feminine genders are still distinguished, dood is now generally masculine (cf. des doods, tot in den dood). The masculine is also, historically, the older form. However, in Middle and Early Modern Dutch it was often treated as feminine, which remains in ter dood veroordelen.