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Etymology 1

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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.

Noun

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dookie (plural dookies)

  1. (Scotland) swimming costume, bathing suit

Etymology 2

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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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Noun

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dookie (countable and uncountable, plural dookies)

  1. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) Feces.
    Synonyms: excrement, poop, shit
    • 2002, – Ashaki Boelter, Hate Begets Hate, page 69:
      "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!"
    • 2002, – Jarrett Oliver, Private Eyes, page 125:
      "That stuff won't be worth a lump of dookie in court. It wouldn't be at all hard for Geale to pull a few strings and get documented permission for having each one of those items."
    • 2005 – Ashaki Boelter: In the Name of Love!: All-4-Love Series 2 of 3 [1] (Reckless Review)
      So Alley found a job
      Scooping up dookie on the streets
    • 2000The Simpsons episode "Little Big Mom"
      Bart: Can I go to the bathroom?
      Otto: Uh-uh! Say it in snowboard lingo.
      Bart: Uh... I've gotta blast a dookie?
      Otto: Dook on!
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Adjective

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dookie (not comparable)

  1. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) Of jewelry: ostentatiously thick.
    • 2000Ugly Duckling song "Exclusive Snipps": "[Young] Einstein got a dookie gold rope"
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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dookie (plural dookies)

  1. Alternative form of dukey (penny gaff)
    • 1889, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, page 321:
      There are three or four performances a night at a dookie, and the audience is usually composed of juvenile harlots []

Scots

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Etymology

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From dook (duck, bathe). Compare dooker.

Noun

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dookie (plural dookies)

  1. Baptist
    • 1895, Ian Maclaren, The Days of Auld Lang Syne, page 319:
      He preached himself in the kitchen, an’ bapteezed his family in the mill dam. They ca’d him a dookie, but a’ve heard there’s mair than ae kind []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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