noun
Meaning 1
A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
dook
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Sound
Pronunciation
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noun
Meaning 2
A strong, untwilled linen or cotton.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 3
A plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc.
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Usage: Scotland
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noun
Meaning 4
dookie; feces
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Usage: slang, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
A heading or roadway following the dip of the strata.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: England, Northern, Scotland, historical
Topics: business, mining
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noun
Meaning 6
Eye dialect spelling of duke (“a fist”).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, pronunciation-spelling
Examples
- Put up your dooks!
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verb
Meaning 7
To make a certain clucking sound.
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verb
Meaning 8
Alternative form of duck.
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Usage: alt-of, alternative, dialectal
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History
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
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).
From duck.
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Dutch: mokken — ferret sound