different between mook vs dook

English

Etymology 1

Unknown. Perhaps a variant of moke (“donkey”) (British slang), first appearing in the US in the 1930s.

Alternately, it could be a corruption of the Italian and Neapolitan word mammalucco (“mamluk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?k/
• Rhymes: -u?k

Noun

mook (plural mooks)

1. (slang, US, chiefly Upper Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and New England) A disagreeable or incompetent person.
2. (colloquial, gaming) An anonymous foe that appears in large numbers and is readily dispatched by the hero.

Derived terms

• mookish

Translations

Etymology 2

Blend of magazine +? book

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

mook (plural mooks)

1. A book published in the form factor of a magazine.

Synonyms

• bookazine
• mag book

Anagrams

• moko

Totontepec Mixe

Noun

mook

1. cob, corn.

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