dook
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dook¹
Where it comes from
Onomatopoeic.
verb dooks · dooking · dooked
- To make a certain clucking sound. 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.
noun dooks
- A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.
dook²
Where it comes from
From duck.
verb dooks · dooking · dooked
- Alternative form of duck 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...
dook³
Where it comes from
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).
noun dooks · doock
- A strong, untwilled linen or cotton.
dook⁴
noun dooks
- A plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc.
dook⁵
noun
- dookie; feces 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.
dook⁶
noun dooks
- A heading or roadway following the dip of the strata.
dook⁷
noun dooks
- Eye dialect spelling of duke (“a fist”). Put up your dooks!
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title = {dook},
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