dookie
English
editEtymology 1
editIn 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.
Noun
editdookie (plural dookies)
Etymology 2
editProbably 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.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editdookie (countable and uncountable, plural dookies)
- (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) Feces.
- 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 [1] (Reckless Review)
- So Alley found a job
- Scooping up dookie on the streets
- 2000 – The Simpsons episode "Little Big Mom"
Derived terms
editAdjective
editdookie (not comparable)
- (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) Of jewelry: ostentatiously thick.
- 2000 – Ugly Duckling song "Exclusive Snipps": "[Young] Einstein got a dookie gold rope"
Synonyms
edit- See Thesaurus:feces
Etymology 3
editNoun
editdookie (plural dookies)
- 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 […]
Scots
editEtymology
editFrom dook (“duck, bathe”). Compare dooker.
Noun
editdookie (plural dookies)
- 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 […]
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
References
edit- “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”
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