English Explanatory Dictionary

dood

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A riding camel or dromedary.
noun
  1. Eye dialect spelling of dude.
noun
  1. Alternative form of doot.
verb
  1. Alternative form of doot.

Word forms

dood doods doodz dooding dooded

Etymology

Back-formation from dudhwallah, doodwallah (“milk-man”, literally “milk-ward”), reinterpreting the wallah of milk as a wallah of camels by dint of misremembrance of the Bengali word for “camel” which is উট (uṭ).

Related words

d00d
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