"dookie" meaning in English

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Adjective

Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|doo-doo|nocap=1}} clipping of doo-doo, {{suf|en||-kie|pos2=diminutive suffix}} + -kie (diminutive suffix) Head templates: {{en-adjective|-}} dookie (not comparable)
  1. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) Of jewelry: ostentatiously thick. Tags: US, not-comparable, slang Synonyms: feces
    Sense id: en-dookie-en-adj-cmYgQ03g Categories (other): African-American Vernacular English, American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Forms: dookies [plural]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{m|sco|dookie}} dookie, {{m|sco|doukit}} doukit, {{m|sco|douker}} douker, {{m|en|duck}} duck, {{m|en|dunk}} dunk Head templates: {{en-noun}} dookie (plural dookies)
  1. (Scotland) swimming costume, bathing suit Tags: Scotland
    Sense id: en-dookie-en-noun-rW44DpB4 Categories (other): Scottish English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun

Forms: dookies [plural]
Etymology: 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. Etymology templates: {{clipping|en|doo-doo|nocap=1}} clipping of doo-doo, {{suf|en||-kie|pos2=diminutive suffix}} + -kie (diminutive suffix) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} dookie (countable and uncountable, plural dookies)
  1. (US, slang, African-American Vernacular) Feces. Tags: US, countable, slang, uncountable Categories (topical): Feces Synonyms: excrement, poop, shit Derived forms: dookie hole, take a dookie
    Sense id: en-dookie-en-noun-O4pigkIF Disambiguation of Feces: 10 5 83 2 Categories (other): African-American Vernacular English, American English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun

Forms: dookies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dookie (plural dookies)
  1. Alternative form of dukey (“penny gaff”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: dukey (extra: penny gaff)
    Sense id: en-dookie-en-noun-t6RVuCha
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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