different between doo vs doko

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: do?o, IPA^(key): /du?/
• (US) enPR: do?o, IPA^(key): /du/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /d??/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophones: dew, do, due

Noun

doo

1. (childish) feces

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

Interjection

doo

1. (music) Used as a scat word in song lyrics.
   • 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.

Related terms

• doo-wop

Anagrams

• ODO, OOD

Aiwoo

Pronoun

doo

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

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) , “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Gooniyandi

Noun

doo

1. cave

Manx

Etymology

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

Adjective

doo

1. black
2. inky

   Synonym: dooagh

Derived terms

• Yn Vooir Ghoo (“the Black Sea”)

Noun

doo m (genitive singular doo, plural dooghyn)

1. ink

Derived terms

Verb

doo

1. to ink

Mutation

See also

Navajo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tò?/

Particle

doo

1. Part of the negative correlative:

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

3. With a verb + -góó, forms a negative conditional:

Derived terms

Pronunciation

Verb

doo

1. Abbreviation of doolee? (“it will be”).
2. When paired with ?t?éé?, forms a conditional:

See also

• dóó
• -dóó

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

doo

1. (obsolete) past plural of døy

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o.u

Verb 1

doo

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

Verb 2

doo

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

Rohingya

Etymology

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

Noun

doo

1. knife

Scots

Etymology

From Old English *d?fe (compare woman's given name D?fe); akin to Old High German t?ba (“dove, pigeon”), Icelandic dúfa (“dove, pigeon”), Dúfa (woman's first name)), Danish dove, pigeon, Norwegian Bokmål due (“dove, pigeon”), Norwegian Nynorsk due (“dove, pigeon”) and Swedish duva (“dove, pigeon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du?/, /d?u/

Noun

doo (plural doos)

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

Derived terms

• King of the Doos (“English Carrier (an old domestic pigeon breed)”)

Solon

Noun

doo

1. song

References

• Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Dagur Elements in Solon Evenki, 2012.

Teposcolula Mixtec

Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *?dòò?.

Noun

doo

1. cane

Derived terms

References

• Alvarado, Francisco de (1593) Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 43v: “caña de comer. doo.”

English

Noun

doko (plural dokos)

1. (archaic) A lepidosiren.
   • 1887, Henry Davenport Northrop, Earth, sea and sky: or, marvels of the universe (page 683)

     If the water, which the doko has chosen for its habitation becomes dried up, it wraps itself in a kind of a capsule of mud […]

Anagrams

• dook

Chichewa

Etymology

Unknown. Sometimes claimed to be a borrowing from English dock, which is extremely unlikely due to the term being attested in the dictionary of Johannes Rebmann, compiled before contact with English speakers, as well due to the implosive consonant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??o.ko/

Noun

doko 5 (plural madoko 6)

1. harbor or landing place for boats

Japanese

Romanization

doko

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Shona

Adjective

-dóko

1. Karanga and Manyika form of -diki

Inflection