Dood
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A riding camel or dromedary.
"The Chief was lying down beside my dooly, aking a nap while his tent was being prepared, with his head resting on his hand, for he refused to accept the loan of my pillow, when a camel-driver came by, leading a huge dood so carelessly as to bring him right across Sir Colin."
- 2 Eye dialect spelling of dude. alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
""Talk about yer doods," said a Texas stockman, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train last night, "but a leetle the doodest dood I ever seen wuz a feller that come down from Boston into our kentry a year ago las' September.""
- 3 Alternative form of doot. Hong-Kong, alt-of, alternative
- 1 Alternative form of doot. Hong-Kong, alt-of, alternative
Example
More examples"The Chief was lying down beside my dooly, aking a nap while his tent was being prepared, with his head resting on his hand, for he refused to accept the loan of my pillow, when a camel-driver came by, leading a huge dood so carelessly as to bring him right across Sir Colin."
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).
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