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dookie¹

Where it comes from

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 dookies · dooky

  1. Scotland swimming costume, bathing suit

dookie²

  • /ˈduːki/

Where it comes from

Probably clipping of doo-doo + -kie (diminutive suffix), later repopularized by the 1989 film No Holds Barred and later still the 1994 Green Day album Dookie.

noun dookies · dooky

  1. US, countable, slang, uncountable Feces. "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!"

    Similar: excrement, poop, shit

adjective dooky

  1. US, not comparable, slang Of jewelry: ostentatiously thick. 2000 – Ugly Duckling song "Exclusive Snipps": "[Young] Einstein got a dookie gold rope"

    Similar: dukey, feces

dookie³

noun dookies · dooky

  1. alternative Alternative form of dukey (“penny gaff”). There are three or four performances a night at a dookie, and the audience is usually composed of juvenile harlots […]

Dookie⁴

proper noun

  1. A town in the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

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@misc{dookie_2026,
  title = {dookie},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dookie},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}