dookie

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.

dookie (plural dookies)

1. (Scotland) swimming costume, bathing suit

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.

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dookie (countable and uncountable, plural dookies)

1. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) Feces.

   Synonyms: excrement, poop, shit

   • 2002, – Ashaki Boelter, Hate Begets Hate, page 69:

     "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, – Jarrett Oliver, Private Eyes, page 125:

     "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."

   • 2005 – Ashaki Boelter: In the Name of Love!: All-4-Love Series 2 of 3 (Reckless Review)

     So Alley found a job

     Scooping up dookie on the streets

   • 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!

• dookie braid
• dookie hole
• take a dookie

dookie (not comparable)

1. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) Of jewelry: ostentatiously thick.
   • 2000 – Ugly Duckling song "Exclusive Snipps": " Einstein got a dookie gold rope"

• See Thesaurus:feces

dookie (plural dookies)

1. Alternative form of dukey (“penny gaff”)
   • 1889, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, page 321:

     There are three or four performances a night at a dookie, and the audience is usually composed of juvenile harlots […]

From dook (“duck, bathe”). Compare dooker.

dookie (plural dookies)

1. Baptist
   • 1895, Ian Maclaren, The Days of Auld Lang Syne, page 319:

     He preached himself in the kitchen, an’ bapteezed his family in the mill dam. They ca’d him a dookie, but a’ve heard there’s mair than ae kind […]

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• “dook, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC: “https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/dook_v1_n1”