dood
dood noun: a riding camel or dromedary. Also the eye dialect spelling of dude.
Noun
dood (plural doods)
- A riding camel or dromedary.
- The Chief was lying down beside my dooly, aking a nap while his tent was being prepared, with his head resting on his hand, for he refused to accept the loan of my pillow, when a camel-driver came by, leading a huge dood so carelessly as to bring him right across Sir Colin.1860, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India, in the Year 1858–9, volume 2, London: Routledge, Warne and Routledge, page 25
- “I have never seen it,” he replied, “but I have seen them attack a dood.”
“What is a dood?”
“A camel; one of a troop fording the river.”1892, George Manville Fenn, Gil the Gummer, Or, The Youngest Officer in the East, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, page 42
Also used as
dood is also the eye dialect spelling of dude.
dood is also the alternative form of doot.
Forms of dood
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | doods |
| plural | doodz |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | doods |
| present participle | dooding |
| past participle | dooded |
| past | dooded |
Origin of dood
Back-formation from dudhwallah, doodwallah (“milk-man”, literally “milk-ward”), reinterpreting the wallah of milk as a wallah of camels by dint of misremembrance of the Bengali word for “camel” which is উট (uṭ).
Questions about dood
- What does dood mean?
- Dood means a riding camel or dromedary.
- What part of speech is dood?
- Dood is a noun.
- What is the plural of dood?
- The plural of dood is doods.
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