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.
   • 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. (dialectal) Alternative form of duck (verb)
   • 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-Germanic *dōkaz (“cloth”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwōg-, *dwōk- (“cloth”). See also duck (cloth).

• doock

dook (plural dooks)

1. (Britain 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.

• doko

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• Rhymes: -oːk

dook

1. singular past indicative of duiken

From Middle English douken. More at English duck.

dook (plural dooks)

1. duck (act of ducking)
2. bathe

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

1. to duck
2. to bathe

From Dutch doeck (“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