different between dookie vs kookie

English

Etymology 1

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.

Noun

dookie (plural dookies)

1. (Britain) Baptist
   • 1895 Dictionary of the Scots Language [1]
2. (Scotland) swimming costume, bathing suit

Etymology 2

Probably alteration of doo-doo, baby-talk reduplication of do, later repopularized by the 1989 film No Holds Barred and later still the 1994 Green Day album Dookie.

Noun

dookie (uncountable)

1. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) feces
   • 2002 – Ashaki Boelter: Hate Begets Hate [2] (page 69)

     "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!"

   • 2002 – Jarrett Oliver: Private Eyes [3] (page 125)

     "That stuff won't be worth a lump of dookie in court. It wouldn't be at all hard for Geale to pull a few strings and get documented permission for having each one of those items."

   • 2005 – Ashaki Boelter: In the Name of Love!: All-4-Love Series 2 of 3 [4] (Reckless Review)

     So Alley found a job

     Scooping up dookie on the streets

   • 2000 – The Simpsons episode "Little Big Mom"

     Bart: Can I go to the bathroom?

     Otto: Uh-uh! Say it in snowboard lingo.

     Bart: Uh... I've gotta blast a dookie?

     Otto: Dook on!

Adjective

dookie (not comparable)

1. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) (derivation from earlier and more common use of noun) describing gold jewelry which is thick in circumference (often to excessiveness), reminiscent of the thickness of feces
   • 2000 – Ugly Ducking song "Exclusive Snipps": "[Young] Einstein got a dookie gold rope"

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:feces

English

Etymology 1

kook(aburra) +? -ie

Alternative forms

• kooky

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?k?ki?/
• Rhymes: -?ki

Noun

kookie (plural kookies)

1. (Australian slang) kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae)

Etymology 2

Adjective

kookie (comparative more kookie, superlative most kookie)

1. Alternative form of kooky