Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

dookie

/ˈduːki/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.34 in modern English

Syllables: dook-ie
IPA: /ˈduːki/

11

Scrabble Score

6

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

swimming costume, bathing suit

noun

American usage; Countable; Slang; Uncountable

adj

Of jewelry: ostentatiously thick.

American usage; Slang

noun

Alternative form of dukey (“penny gaff”).

name

A town in the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.

Example Sentences

""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!""
""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.""
"So Alley found a job Scooping up dookie on the streets"
"2000 – The 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!"
"2000 – Ugly Duckling song "Exclusive Snipps": "[Young] Einstein got a dookie gold rope""
"There are three or four performances a night at a dookie, and the audience is usually composed of juvenile harlots […]"

Etymology

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.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: -kie

Usage

Inflected Forms

dookies (plural) dooky (alternative)

Phrases

dookie braid dookie hole take a dookie Dookie College

Synonyms

excrement poop shit dukey feces

Questions

How do you pronounce dookie?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈduːki/.
What does dookie mean?: swimming costume, bathing suit
Where does dookie come from?: 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.

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