dook

present singular third person dooks · participle present dooking · participle past dooked · past dooked

1. To make a certain clucking sound.

   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.

   2014, Timothy Smith, Chinook the Ferret's Halloween Adventure, page 1

plural dooks

1. A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.

present singular third person dooks · participle present dooking · participle past dooked · past dooked

1. alternativedialectalAlternative form of duck.

   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...

   1835, James Baillie Fraser, The Highland smugglers, Volume 2

plural dooks · alternative doock

1. UKcountabledialectaluncountableA strong, untwilled linen or cotton.

plural dooks

1. ScotlandA plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc.

1. slanguncountabledookie; feces

   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.

   2016, A. F. Knott, The Trainee

plural dooks

1. EnglandNorthernScotlandhistoricalbusinessA heading or roadway following the dip of the strata.

plural dooks

1. pronunciation spellingEye dialect spelling of duke (“a fist”).

   Put up your dooks!