German Low German

Noun

Dook n (plural Doken)

1. cloth (a piece of fabric)

Related terms

• Tüüg

English

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.
   • 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.

Etymology 2

From duck.

Verb

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

1. (dialect) 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...

Etymology 3

From Dutch doek ‎(“cloth, fabric, canvas”), from Middle Dutch doec, from Old Dutch *dōc, from Proto-Germanic *dōkaz ‎(“cloth”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwōg-, *dwōk- ‎(“cloth”). See also duck (cloth).

Alternative forms

• doock

Noun

dook ‎(plural dooks)

1. (Britain dialectal) a strong, untwilled linen or cotton.

Derived terms

• dooky
• sail-doock

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -oːk

Verb

dook

1. singular past indicative of duiken

Scots

Noun

dook ‎(plural dooks)

1. duck (act of ducking)
2. bathe

Verb

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

1. to duck
2. to bathe