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Dookie

adj, name, noun, slang

Definitions

Adjective

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

Proper Noun

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

Noun

1
swimming costume, bathing suit Scotland
2
Feces. US, countable, slang, uncountable
""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!""
3
Alternative form of dukey (“penny gaff”). alt-of, alternative
"There are three or four performances a night at a dookie, and the audience is usually composed of juvenile harlots […]"

Etymology

Etymology 1

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.

Etymology 2

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.

Etymology 3

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.

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