dook

English edit

Onomatopoeic.

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

(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.

ferret sound

dook (plural dooks)

From duck.

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

(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...

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).

dook (countable and uncountable, plural dooks)

dook (plural dooks)

dook (uncountable)

(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.