Dooker

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Swimming trunks. Scotland, in-plural

    "And that reminds me... I got new dookers a couple of weeks ago and I haven't tried it on yet."

  2. 2
    A ferret that tends to dook.

    "hehe spooky dookers?"

  3. 3
    A loony dooker. Scotland

    "'It was fantastic being a 'Dooker' welcoming the new year. It's terrific how much energy and excitement the Loony Dook generates and the fantastic fancy dress costumes people make and the money generated for charity. We'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year!"

  4. 4
    A bather. Scotland

    "Nairn, as with Lossiemouth and some other Moray coast towns and villages, had good bathing beaches. At the more fashionable resorts the facilities for bathing included a number of bathing machines. For less hardy dookers, indoor salt-water baths were seen as essential amenities."

  5. 5
    A piece of poo. slang

    "Last summer a couple of buddies and I were camping. After a bit too much bourbon, my buddy goes into the woods to shit. He drops his pants and grabs a tree. One key point- he forgot to lean back and dropped a dooker into is^([sic]) drawers. We didn't let him back to the campfire circle."

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  1. 6
    A thing whose actual name is unknown or forgotten; doohickey.

    "John goes to a cupboard. Out of it he takes a copper tube, about two feet long and an inch and a half wide. It is sealed at one end and has a leather thong at the other. 'There you are,' he says. 'A dooker, one I confiscated many years ago from a workman here. That's something else we just don't get any trouble with any more. People are more responsible nowadays.'"

  2. 7
    An oddball.

    "The porch door opens and MacAllan comes in. His nose is up already, sniffing the metal money, trust a dooker from Havelock Close to enter the front door of a man's house without a knock even though it be a bank now."

  3. 8
    A wild boar.

    "And among the numerous herds of semi-wild pigs snuffling for acorns close to the roadsides, one can see an occasional pigling with the striped back which to an old hoghunter brings to mind a picture of a 'dooker' emerging from the forests like a human bandit to take his pleasure with some domestic sow, less well guarded than her sisters, or perhaps less discriminating and, like Spada's lady-friend, with a taste for something a little wild and shaggy."

  4. 9
    Loon.

    "So as we toiled at the oar over the calm clear water of Loch Linnhe, and saw the flocks of gulls and dookers dotting the sea around and about us, we asked ourselves if this were not the forerunner of the anticipated herring shoals?"

Example

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"And that reminds me... I got new dookers a couple of weeks ago and I haven't tried it on yet."

Etymology

From dook + -er.

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