doo

• (UK) enPR: do͞o, IPA^(key): /duː/
• (US) enPR: do͞o, IPA^(key): /du/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dʉː/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: dew, do, due

doo

1. (childish) feces

   Synonyms: BM, doo-doo, doody, poo, poo-poo, poop

doo

1. (music) Used as a scat word in song lyrics.
   • 1995, Phil Farrand, The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers: Volume 2

     (Ever feel like you've just entered... The Twilight Zone? Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo....)

   • 2006, Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music (page 272)

     […] the bloke who sang about coloured girls going 'doo de doo de doo doo d'de doo de doo de doo' had once had this thing with the guy who produced the debut albums by the Stooges and Patti Smith.

• doo-wop

• ODO, OOD

doo

1. (interrogative) what
2. (interrogative) how

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

doo

1. cave

From Old Irish dub, from Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“black”).

doo

1. black
2. inky

   Synonym: dooagh

• Yn Vooir Ghoo (“the Black Sea”)

doo m (genitive singular doo, plural dooghyn)

1. ink

doo

1. to ink

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doo

1. Part of the negative correlative:

   doo ... da

   doo yáʼátʼééh da ― it is not good

2. With a nominalizer, forms a negative noun phrase:

   doo yáʼátʼéehii ― that which isn’t good

   doo naalnishii ― the one who isn’t working

   doo bénáshniihígíí ― that which I don’t remember

3. Pairing doo with a verb + -góó forms a negative conditional

   Doo naashnishgóó níká adeeshwoł. ― If I’m not working, I’ll help you.

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doo

1. Abbreviation of dooleeł (“it will be”).
2. paired with ńtʼééʼ, it forms a conditional

   Dine bizaad bóhooshʼaah doo ńtʼééʼ. ― I should have studied Navajo

   Éí nizhóní doo ńtʼééʼ. ― That would have been nice; that could have been nice.

• dóó
• -dóó

doo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of doer

doo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of doar

Compare Assamese দা (da, “a big knife”)

doo

1. knife

From Old English *dūfe (compare woman's given name Dūfe); akin to Old High German tūba (“dove, pigeon”), Icelandic dúfa (“dove, pigeon”), Dúfa (woman's first name)), Swedish duva (“dove, pigeon”), Norwegian and Danish due (“dove, pigeon”).

• IPA^(key): /duː/, /dʌu/

doo (plural doos)

1. dove (bird of the pigeon family, Columbidae)

• King of the Doos