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Dook

noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.
  2. 2
    A strong, untwilled linen or cotton. UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
  3. 3
    A plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc. Scotland
  4. 4
    dookie; feces slang, uncountable

    "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."

  5. 5
    A heading or roadway following the dip of the strata. England, Northern, Scotland, historical
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  1. 6
    Eye dialect spelling of duke (“a fist”). alt-of, pronunciation-spelling

    "Put up your dooks!"

Verb
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    Alternative form of duck. alt-of, alternative, dialectal

    "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..."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 2

Onomatopoeic.

Etymology 3

From duck.

Etymology 4

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).

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