dook

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English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

dook (third-person singular simple present dooks, present participle dooking, simple past and past participle dooked)

  1. (of a ferret) To make a certain clucking sound.
    • 2014, Timothy Smith, Chinook the Ferret's Halloween Adventure, page 1:
      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.
Translations

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

  1. A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.

Etymology 2

From duck.

Verb

dook (third-person singular simple present dooks, present participle dooking, simple past and past participle dooked)

  1. (dialect) Alternative form of duck
    • 1835, James Baillie Fraser, The Highland smugglers, Volume 2:
      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...
Descendants
  • Welsh: dowcio (“to plunge, to dive”)

Etymology 3

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).

Alternative forms

Noun

dook (countable and uncountable, plural dooks)

  1. (UK dialectal) A strong, untwilled linen or cotton.
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

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

Etymology 5

Noun

dook (uncountable)

  1. (slang) dookie; feces
    • 2016, A. F. Knott, The Trainee:
      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.

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -oːk

Verb

dook

  1. singular past indicative of duiken

Komo

Noun

dook

  1. weaverbird

References

  • RWC Workshop (eds.). 2015. Komo – English Dictionary. SIL International.

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English douken. More at English duck.

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

  1. duck (act of ducking)
  2. bathe

Verb

dook (third-person singular simple present dooks, present participle dookin, simple past dookit, past participle dookit)

  1. to duck
  2. to bathe

Etymology 2

From Dutch doek (“cloth, linen, garment”). More at English duck (“canvas”).

Alternative forms

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

  1. A strong, untwilled linen or cotton fabric; duck
Derived terms

Tetum

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zauq, compare Malay jauh.

Adverb

dook

  1. far
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