different between dook vs doko

English

Etymology 1

Onomatopoeic.

Verb

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.
   • 2014, 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.

Translations

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.

Etymology 2

From duck.

Verb

dook (third-person singular simple present dooks, present participle dooking, simple past and past participle dooked)

1. (dialect) Alternative form of duck (verb)

Etymology 3

From Dutch doek (“cloth, fabric, canvas”), from Middle Dutch doec, from Old Dutch *d?c, from Proto-West Germanic *d?k, from Proto-Germanic *d?kaz (“cloth”), from Proto-Indo-European *dw?g-, *dw?k- (“cloth”). See also duck (cloth).

Alternative forms

• doock

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. (Britain dialectal) a strong, untwilled linen or cotton.

Derived terms

• dooky
• sail-doock

Etymology 4

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. (Scotland) A plug of wood driven into a wall to hold a nail, etc.

Etymology 5

Noun

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.

Anagrams

• doko

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?k

Verb

dook

1. singular past indicative of duiken

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English douken. More at English duck.

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. duck (act of ducking)
2. bathe

Verb

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

1. to duck
2. to bathe

Etymology 2

From Dutch doek (“cloth, linen, garment”). More at English duck (“canvas”).

Alternative forms

• doock (obsolete)

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. A strong, untwilled linen or cotton fabric; duck

Derived terms

• sail-doock
• dooky

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