dookie

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)

(Scotland) swimming costume, bathing suit

Etymology 2

Probably clipping of doo-doo +‎ -kie (diminutive suffix), later repopularized by the 1989 film No Holds Barred and later still the 1994 Green Day album Dookie.

Pronunciation

Audio (US): (file)

Noun

dookie (countable and uncountable, plural dookies)

(US, slang, African-American Vernacular) Feces.
Synonyms: excrement, poop, shit
- 2002, – Ashaki Boelter, Hate Begets Hate, 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, 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 [1] (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!

Derived terms

Adjective

dookie (not comparable)

(US, slang, African-American Vernacular) Of jewelry: ostentatiously thick.
- 2000 – Ugly Duckling song "Exclusive Snipps": "[Young] Einstein got a dookie gold rope"

Synonyms

See Thesaurus:feces

Etymology 3

Noun

dookie (plural dookies)

Alternative form of dukey (“penny gaff”)
- 1889, Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant, page 321:
  There are three or four performances a night at a dookie, and the audience is usually composed of juvenile harlots […]

Scots

Etymology

From dook (“duck, bathe”). Compare dooker.

Noun

dookie (plural dookies)

Baptist
- 1895, Ian Maclaren, The Days of Auld Lang Syne, page 319:
  He preached himself in the kitchen, an’ bapteezed his family in the mill dam. They ca’d him a dookie, but a’ve heard there’s mair than ae kind […]
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

References

“dook, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC: “https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/dook_v1_n1”