dookie

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.

dookie (plural dookies)

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

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.

dookie (uncountable)

1. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) feces
   • 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 (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!

• dookie hole

dookie (not comparable)

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

• See Thesaurus:feces

dookie (plural dookies)

1. 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 […]