dook

Onomatopoeic.

dook (third-person singular simple present dooks, present participle dooking, simple past and past participle dooked)

1. (of a ferret) To make a certain clucking sound.
   • 2014, Timothy Smith, Chinook the Ferret's Halloween Adventure, page 1:

     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.

dook (plural dooks)

1. A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.

From duck.

dook (third-person singular simple present dooks, present participle dooking, simple past and past participle dooked)

1. (dialect) Alternative form of duck.
   • 1835, James Baillie Fraser, The Highland smugglers, Volume 2:

     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...

• Welsh: dowcio (“to plunge, to dive”)

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).

• doock

dook (countable and uncountable, plural dooks)

1. (UK dialectal) A strong, untwilled linen or cotton.

• dooky
• sail-doock

dook (plural dooks)

1. (Scotland) A plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc.

dook (uncountable)

1. (slang) dookie; feces
   • 2016, A. F. Knott, The Trainee:

     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.

dook (plural dooks)

1. (mining, historical, Scotland, northern England) A heading or roadway following the dip of the strata.

dook (plural dooks)

1. Eye dialect spelling of duke (“a fist”).

   Put up your dooks!

• John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

• doko, kodo

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• Rhymes: -oːk

dook

1. singular past indicative of duiken

dook

1. weaverbird

• RWC Workshop (eds.). 2015. Komo – English Dictionary. SIL International.

From Middle English douken. More at English duck.

dook (plural dooks)

1. duck (act of ducking)
2. bathe

dook (third-person singular simple present dooks, present participle dookin, simple past dookit, past participle dookit)

1. to duck
2. to bathe

From Dutch doek (“cloth, linen, garment”). More at English duck (“canvas”).

• doock (obsolete)

dook (plural dooks)

1. A strong, untwilled linen or cotton fabric; duck

• sail-doock
• dooky

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *zauq, compare Malay jauh.

dook

1. far