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dook

verb, noun — 6 senses

dook

verb

Etymology Onomatopoeic.

1

Of a ferret To make a certain clucking sound.

  • 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.2014, Timothy Smith, Chinook the Ferret's Halloween Adventure, page 1:
Derived terms
dooker

dook

noun

Etymology Onomatopoeic.

1

A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.

dook

noun

Etymology 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).

1

UK, Dialectal A strong, untwilled linen or cotton.

Derived terms
dooky, sail-doock

dook

noun
1

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

dook

noun
1

Slang dookie; feces

  • 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.2016, A. F. Knott, The Trainee:

dook

noun
1

Business, Mining England, Northern, Scotland, Historical A heading or roadway following the dip of the strata.

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