doo

See also: Appendix:Variations of "doo"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Dongo.

Symbol

doo

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dongo.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dongo terms

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: do͞o, IPA^(key): /duː/
• (US) enPR: do͞o, IPA^(key): /du/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dʉː/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: do; dew, due (yod-dropping)

Etymology 1

1950s, from child speak.

Noun

doo

1. (childish) feces, particularly that of a dog.

   Synonyms: BM, doo-doo, doody, poo, poo-poo, poop

Etymology 2

Interjection

doo

1. (music) Used as a scat word in singing.
   • 1995, Phil Farrand, The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers: Volume 2:

     (Ever feel like you've just entered... The Twilight Zone? Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo....)

   • 2006, Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music, page 272:

     […] the bloke who sang about coloured girls going 'doo de doo de doo doo d'de doo de doo de doo' had once had this thing with the guy who produced the debut albums by the Stooges and Patti Smith.

Related terms

• doo-wop

Etymology 3

Clipping of Skidoo.

Noun

doo (plural doos)

1. (Antarctica) A snowmobile.
   • 2024 June 20, Eva Corlett, “Fidlets, fingies and riding a doo: study sheds light on Antarctic English slang”, in The Guardian‎^[2], archived from the original on 30 November 2024:

     If you know what it means to be a “fidlet” going for a “jolly” in your “doo”, then you are part of an exclusive club that speaks colloquial Antarctic English.

Derived terms

• cock-a-doodle-doo
• dog-doo
• doo-dad
• doo-hickey
• doo wop
• doo-wopper
• doo-woppy
• fuck-a-doodle-doo
• in deep doo-doo
• whoop de doo
• whoop-de-doo
• whoopdee doo
• whoop-dee-doo
• whoop dee doo
• whoopee doo
• whoopee-doo
• whoopy doo
• whoopy-doo
• woopty doo
• woopy doo
• woopy-doo
• yaba daba doo
• yabba dabba doo
• yabba-dabba-doo
• zip-a-dee-doo-dah

See also

• king of the doos

Anagrams

• ODO, Odo, OOD, odo-

Äiwoo

Pronoun

doo

1. (interrogative) what
2. (interrogative) how

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

Galician

Verb

doo

1. first-person singular present indicative of doar
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of doer

Gooniyandi

Noun

doo

1. cave

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish dub, from Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“black”).

Pronunciation

• (Northern) IPA^(key): /dau̯/
• (Southern) IPA^(key): /duː/

Adjective

doo

1. black
2. inky

   Synonym: dooagh

Derived terms

• Yn Vooir Ghoo (“the Black Sea”)

Noun

doo m (genitive singular doo, plural dooghyn)

1. ink

Derived terms

• boteil doo (“ink-bottle”)
• feddan doo (“ink-feed”)
• kiap doo (“ink-pad”)
• poagey doo (“ink-bag”)
• tobbyr ghoo (“ink-well”)

Verb

doo

1. to ink

See also

Colors in Manx · daaghyn (layout · text)

bane	lheeah	doo
jiarg; feer-yiarg	jiarg-bwee; dhone	bwee; bane-wuigh
	geayney, glass
	gorrym-ghlass, speyr-ghorrym	gorrym
plooreenagh	jiarg gorrym	jiarg-bane

Mutation

Mutation of doo

radical	lenition	eclipsis
doo	ghoo	noo

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Manx.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

doo

1. alternative form of do (“doe”)

Etymology 2

Verb

doo

1. alternative form of don

Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tòː/

• Audio:

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Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Particle

doo

1. Part of the negative correlative:

   doo ... da

   doo yáʼátʼééh da ― it is not good

2. With a nominalizer, forms a negative noun phrase:

   doo yáʼátʼéehii ― that which isn’t good

   doo naalnishii ― the one who isn’t working

   doo bénáshniihígíí ― that which I don’t remember

3. With a verb + -góó, forms a negative conditional:

   Doo naashnishgóó níká adeeshwoł. ― If I’m not working, I’ll help you.

Derived terms

• béésh doo ńdiniichxíihii (“titanium”)
• chʼosh doo yitʼínii (“microorganism”)
• doishʼíinii (“son-in-law”)
• doo nidahałtingóó (“desert”)
• doo...da (“not ...”, negative circumfix)
• dooda (“no”)
• łóód doo nádziihii (“cancer”)
• níłchʼi doo diiltłádí (“carbon dioxide”)
• tó doo bidééłníní (“plastic”)

Etymology 2

Clipping of dooleeł (“it will be”, future tense). The initial d- is from the inceptive / inchoative / future verb prefix di-.

Verb

doo

1. clipping of dooleeł (“it will be”)
2. when paired with ńtʼééʼ, forms a past conjecture:

   Dine bizaad bóhooshʼaah doo ńtʼééʼ. ― I should have studied Navajo.

   Éí nizhóní doo ńtʼééʼ. ― That would have been nice; that could have been nice.

See also

• dóó
• -dóó

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

doo

1. (obsolete) past plural of døy

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.u/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.u/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.o/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.u/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.u/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈdo(w).u/

• Rhymes: -ou
• Homophone: dou-o
• Hyphenation: do‧o

Verb

doo

1. first-person singular present indicative of doar

Rohingya

Etymology

Compare Assamese দা (da, “a big knife”)

Noun

doo

1. knife

Scots

Alternative forms

• dow

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English douf, from Old English *dūfe. Compare woman's given name Dūfe.

Akin to Old High German tūba (“dove, pigeon”), Icelandic dúfa (“dove, pigeon”), Danish dove, pigeon, Norwegian Bokmål due (“dove, pigeon”), Norwegian Nynorsk due (“dove, pigeon”) and Swedish duva (“dove, pigeon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duː/, /dʌu/

Noun

doo (plural doos)

1. dove, pigeon (bird of the dove and pigeon family: Columbidae)
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.

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Derived terms

• King of the Doos (“English Carrier (an old domestic pigeon breed)”)

Solon

Noun

doo

1. song

References

• Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Dagur Elements in Solon Evenki, 2012.

Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English dough.

Noun

doo class IX (plural doo class X)

1. (Sheng) money

   Synonym: pesa

Teposcolula Mixtec

Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *ⁿdòòʔ.

Noun

doo

1. cane

Derived terms

• doo cusa
• doo tuhu
• doohuidzi
• dootnami

References

• Alvarado, Francisco de (1593), Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 43v: “caña de comer. doo.”