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. (Scotland) swimming costume, bathing suit

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.

dookie (countable and uncountable, plural dookies)

1. (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 (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
• take a dookie

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 […]

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

dookie (plural dookies)

1. 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)

• “dook, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries: “dookie, a Baptist”.