dook

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English

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Etymology 1

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Onomatopoeic.

Verb

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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
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Noun

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dook (plural dooks)

  1. A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.

Etymology 2

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From duck.

Verb

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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
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  • Welsh: dowcio (to plunge, to dive)

Etymology 3

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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

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Noun

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dook (countable and uncountable, plural dooks)

  1. (UK dialectal) A strong, untwilled linen or cotton.
Derived terms
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Etymology 4

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Noun

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dook (plural dooks)

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

Etymology 5

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Noun

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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

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -oːk

Verb

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dook

  1. singular past indicative of duiken

Komo

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Noun

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dook

  1. weaverbird

References

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

Scots

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English douken. More at English duck.

Noun

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dook (plural dooks)

  1. duck (act of ducking)
  2. bathe

Verb

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

  1. to duck
  2. to bathe

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

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Noun

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dook (plural dooks)

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

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Etymology

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

Adverb

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dook

  1. far