dookie
English
Etymology 1
In 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
dookie (plural dookies)
- (UK) Baptist (Can we verify(+) this sense?)
- (Scotland) swimming costume, bathing suit
Etymology 2
Probably alteration of doo-doo, baby-talk reduplication of do, later repopularized by the 1989 film No Holds Barred and later still the 1994 Green Day album Dookie.
Noun
dookie (uncountable)
- (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 (Reckless Review)
- So Alley found a job
- Scooping up dookie on the streets
- 2000 – The Simpsons episode "Little Big Mom"
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Derived terms
Adjective
dookie (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
- See Thesaurus:feces
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