dook

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.

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. A certain clucking sound made by ferrets.

Verb

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

1. (dialect) Alternative form of duck
   • 1835, James Baillie Fraser, The Highland smugglers, Volume 2:

     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...

Alternative forms

• doock

Noun

dook (countable and uncountable, plural dooks)

1. (UK dialectal) A strong, untwilled linen or cotton.

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

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

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.

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. (mining, historical, Scotland, northern England) A heading or roadway following the dip of the strata.

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

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

   Put up your dooks!

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

1. duck (act of ducking)
2. bathe

Verb

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

1. to duck
2. to bathe

Alternative forms

• doock (obsolete)

Noun

dook (plural dooks)

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