Definitions
Etymologies
- Onomatopoeic. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I vote the dook is a fine represen'tive o 'his Columbus grandfather.”
The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs
“Dammit Ian, you can write whatever you want about my governor, but I insist that you don't capitalize "dook".”
“There's a name for a team that peaks in January, then gets run so ragged, with so few substitutions in the name of a draconian coach, that they always flame out in March ... and that name is "dook".”
“Minor detail, and probably something you've mentioned in a past post, but I LOVE how you don't even capitalize "dook".”
“He had never brought Margaret here before, because Mr Allington had once told him, spatulate forefinger at his nose, that it had been built for the "dook" for his excesses, and it was in the quality of his love for her that he could not bear to think of her in association with anything base.”
“Americans always say "dook" instead of "duke," that nobody present seemed to realize the proper way to address a nephew of the Czar was to call him Monseigneur, that the Olympic games in London had been conducted admirably, arid that he didn't believe in marriage, anyway.”
“He recognized the taller of the two men as the "dook" he had seen at Millsborough station about a week ago.”
“Moreover, 'dook' in Romanes means spirit, ghost, and very likely Sinfi found some power of association in this fact; for Videy was a born sceptic.”
“Fritz (God Told Me To Hate Conservatives) says: tombaker says: must be doubly troubling for old dook to be reminded of teh gay at the same time hcr is being “rammed down his throat”.”
Think Progress » Gays Are More Dangerous Than Guns In Florida
“March 19th, 2010 at 1: 55 pm tombaker says: must be doubly troubling for old dook to be reminded of teh gay at the same time hcr is being “rammed down his throat”.”
Think Progress » Gays Are More Dangerous Than Guns In Florida
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘dook’.
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In the Collieries
A collection of coal mining and colliery terms. Some British, some Scots, and some, Other. Many terms are quite to the point; others colorful and imaginative.
Also see Middlesmith's li...fire-damp, black-damp, choke-damp, skip, basket, gallery, Gregory lamp, pit, balance, balancer, tenter, coupler and 313 more...
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Retrologisms
We're bringing it back.
Funky Old English and Middle English words presented for you.swyve, gowk, hwæt, droze, angnaegl, cashmarie, frith, cuttystool, scrid, perfract, cogitabund, juise and 41 more...
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scots words
gowk, wellkenspeckled, dowie, crivvens, clashmaclavers, kludgie, perjink, puddock, well-kenspeckled, gaberlunzie, wheesht, thrawn and 65 more...
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Under The Kilt
Anything related to Scottish culture, cuisine, language, history and so on. Does not include Gaelic words unless acceptable (roughly speaking!) in a wider sense.
brae, machair, loch, burn, inverness, shieling, camanachd, shinty, diddy, bhoy, ghillie, brownie and 393 more...
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A little of the old Ultra-Violence
Gorgeousness and Gorgeosity made flesh- downright horrorshow selections of vocabulary from Nadsat, the Russian-influenced slang of the raping and face-stomping delinquents of Burgess's A Clockwork ...
appypolly loggy, baboochka, baddiwad, banda, bezoomy, bitva, bog, bolnoy, bolshy, bratchny, bratty, britva and 186 more...
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animal sound verbs
limited to non-onomatopoeic words
chitter, gibber, hum, buzz, chirrup, mew, whistle, boom, bellow, caterwaul, fink, low and 49 more...
Tweets
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oroboros According to NPR's Says You: A wood plug driven into a wall to hold a nail. Aug 15, 2009
bilby To swim (Scots). See also dookers. Nov 27, 2007