dookie

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. swimming costume, bathing suit
noun
  1. Feces.
adj
  1. Of jewelry: ostentatiously thick.
noun
  1. Alternative form of dukey (“penny gaff”).
name
  1. A town in the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-dookie.wav

Word forms

dookie dookies dooky

Etymology

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.

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