doody

See also: Doody

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /duːdi/, /duːdi/
  • Audio (General Australian):(file)
  • Homophone: duty (for some speakers)

Etymology 1

Respelling of duty (act of urinating or defecating), possibly by analogy with doodoo and/or because the sense is so far removed from the usual meaning of "duty."

Alternative forms

Noun

doody (usually uncountable, plural doodies)

  1. (US, slang, childish) Excrement, poop.
    • 2007, Brian Bouldrey, Honorable bandit: a walk across Corsica:
      Petra would like to drop despondently onto a rock to pout, but you have to look before you sit, because there are goat doodies everywhere.

Verb

doody (third-person singular simple present doodies, present participle doodying, simple past and past participle doodied)

  1. (intransitive, US, slang, childish) To defecate, poop.
    • 2014, Jason James Johnson, Catbug Says, →ISBN:
      Something smells poopy! It's okay if you just doodied, because we have LOTS of paper towels and extra socks.

Etymology 2

Noun

doody (plural doodies)

  1. (historical) A copper coin of India.

See also