dookie means A town in the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia. It carries an Arena rating of 1523, earned across 2 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, dookie ranks #2,306 of 17,150 for Funniest Words, #4,595 of 17,128 for Most Whimsical Words, #5,147 of 17,115 for Most Vivid Words, #5,374 of 17,123 for Most Malleable Words.
Why “dookie” is a great word
Feces; a swimming costume (chiefly Scots); or a thick, ostentatious gold chain associated with 1980s hip-hop. For the 'feces' sense, it is an extended form of 'doo' (as in 'doo-doo'), of imitative origin. For the 'swimming costume' sense, it is from Scots, related to 'dook' (to duck or dip in water), from the practice of baptism by immersion. Unlike "excrement," that sterile clinical term, or "bathing suit," that generic label for leisure, "dookie" carries the specific charge of the informal, the ritualistic, and the bodily. It is the warm, sour discovery in a diaper; the damp woolen garment clung to after a river baptism; and the heavy, gleaming drape of gold on a rapper's chest—a word that binds our basest realities to our attempts at adornment, a testament to what we leave behind and what we choose to display.
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.
name
- A town in the City of Greater Shepparton, north eastern Victoria, Australia.
noun
- swimming costume, bathing suit
- Feces.e.g.“"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!"”
adj
- Of jewelry: ostentatiously thick.e.g.“2000 – Ugly Duckling song "Exclusive Snipps": "[Young] Einstein got a dookie gold rope"”
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