dook
English
[edit ]Etymology 1
[edit ]Onomatopoeic.
Verb
[edit ]dook (third-person singular simple present dooks , present participle dooking , simple past and past participle dooked )
- (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.
Derived terms
[edit ]Translations
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]dook (plural dooks )
- A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.
Etymology 2
[edit ]From duck .
Verb
[edit ]dook (third-person singular simple present dooks , present participle dooking , simple past and past participle dooked )
- (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
[edit ]- Welsh: dowcio ("to plunge, to dive")
Etymology 3
[edit ]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
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]dook (countable and uncountable , plural dooks )
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[edit ]Etymology 4
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]dook (plural dooks )
- (Scotland ) A plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc.
Etymology 5
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]dook (uncountable )
- (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.
Etymology 6
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]dook (plural dooks )
- (mining , historical , Scotland , northern England ) A heading or roadway following the dip of the strata.
Etymology 7
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]dook (plural dooks )
- Eye dialect spelling of duke ("a fist").
- Put up your dooks!
References
[edit ]- John Camden Hotten (1873), The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
[edit ]Dutch
[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]- Rhymes: -oːk
Verb
[edit ]dook
Komo
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]dook
References
[edit ]- RWC Workshop (eds.). 2015. Komo – English Dictionary. SIL International.
Scots
[edit ]Etymology 1
[edit ]From Middle English douken . More at English duck .
Noun
[edit ]dook (plural dooks )
Verb
[edit ]dook (third-person singular simple present dooks , present participle dookin , simple past and past participle dookit )
Etymology 2
[edit ]From Dutch doek ("cloth, linen, garment"). More at English duck ("canvas").
Alternative forms
[edit ]Noun
[edit ]dook (plural dooks )
Derived terms
[edit ]Tetum
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zauq , compare Malay jauh .
Adverb
[edit ]dook
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