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dooker

dooker noun: swimming trunks.

Noun (1)

dooker (plural dookers)

  1. (Scotland, in plural) Swimming trunks.
    • And that reminds me... I got new dookers a couple of weeks ago and I haven't tried it on yet.2002 March 12, Bagpuss, “Choosing a new bathing suit”, in uk.people.silversurfers (Usenet)
    • You'll be packing in boozing next because of the alcohol that's in it. (Ethyl-Alcohol being toxic, of course...) - and swimmingน^([sic]), for fear of taking in a gobful of chlorinated water (you should see how my dookers have faded since using Penrith swimming pool; what's it doing to my innards?)2004 August 18, Russell W. Barnes, “Fluoride”, in uk.local.cumbria (Usenet)
  2. (Scotland) A loony dooker.
    • 'It was fantastic being a 'Dooker' welcoming the new year. It's terrific how much energy and excitement the Loony Dook generates and the fantastic fancy dress costumes people make and the money generated for charity. We'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year!2019 January 1, Joe Middleton, quoting Charlie Wood and Ed Bartlam, “Carnival in the capital! Thousands turn out for London's colourful New Year's Day parade with dancers, stunt riders and a marching...
    • This classic New Year's Day dip in the River Forth sees people in fancy dress jump into the water in the shadow of the Forth bridges. Spectators can cheer on the "dookers" at the beach or along the route of the parade towards South Queensferry.2019 December 30, Soo Kim, “Hogmanay 2019: What is it and where are the best New Year's Eve celebrations in Edinburgh, Glasgow and across Scotland?”, in Chris Evans, editor, The Daily Telegraph...
  3. (Scotland) A bather.
    • Nairn, as with Lossiemouth and some other Moray coast towns and villages, had good bathing beaches. At the more fashionable resorts the facilities for bathing included a number of bathing machines. For less hardy dookers, indoor salt-water baths were seen as essential amenities.1992, Eric Simpson, Discovering Banff, Moray & Nairn, Edinburgh: John Donald Publishers Ltd, →ISBN, page 152
  4. (slang) A piece of poo.
    • Last summer a couple of buddies and I were camping. After a bit too much bourbon, my buddy goes into the woods to shit. He drops his pants and grabs a tree. One key point- he forgot to lean back and dropped a dooker into is^([sic]) drawers. We didn't let him back to the campfire circle.1994 April 1, BRIAN R. COTTLE, “DO YOU SHIT IN THE WOODS”, in rec.humor (Usenet)
    • Afghans didn't sit on the toilet seat to take a dooker. Instead they climbed on the seat and squatted over the hole, which left the seats soiled with mud and often crap (Afghans are notoriously bad aimers).2016, Todd Campau, Ridiculosity: A Deployment to Afghanistan, Austin, T.X.: Soldier Todd Publishing, →ISBN, page 68
  5. A thing whose actual name is unknown or forgotten; doohickey.
    • John goes to a cupboard. Out of it he takes a copper tube, about two feet long and an inch and a half wide. It is sealed at one end and has a leather thong at the other. 'There you are,' he says. 'A dooker, one I confiscated many years ago from a workman here. That's something else we just don't...1992, Tom Morton, Spirit of Adventure: A Journey Beyond the Whisky Trails, Edinburgh; London: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, pages 81–82
    • A "dooker" is nothing more (or less) than a thing-a-ma-jig; very similar, y'know, to a do-lolly. Silly gurrlll ... you can find a copper dooker (at least at MY hardware store) in the same aisle where you find the copper pipe. I haven't a CLUE what it's called, but it just fits right onto the end of...1999 July 28, sarah curry, “Price for VSC”, in rec.crafts.textiles.quilting (Usenet)
  6. An oddball.
    • The porch door opens and MacAllan comes in. His nose is up already, sniffing the metal money, trust a dooker from Havelock Close to enter the front door of a man's house without a knock even though it be a bank now.2000, Norman Malcolm Macdonald, Portrona, Edinburgh: Birlinn, →ISBN, page 77
  7. A wild boar.
    • And among the numerous herds of semi-wild pigs snuffling for acorns close to the roadsides, one can see an occasional pigling with the striped back which to an old hoghunter brings to mind a picture of a 'dooker' emerging from the forests like a human bandit to take his pleasure with some domestic...1974 February, Frank Richardson, “Tartan Pincushions in Corsica”, in Blackwood's Magazine, volume 315, number 1900, Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 129, column 2
  8. Loon.
    • So as we toiled at the oar over the calm clear water of Loch Linnhe, and saw the flocks of gulls and dookers dotting the sea around and about us, we asked ourselves if this were not the forerunner of the anticipated herring shoals?1883, W[illiam] Anderson Smith, Benderloch: Or, Notes From the West Highlands, 2nd edition, Paisley: Alexander Gardner, page 156

Noun (2)

dooker (plural dookers)

  1. A ferret that tends to dook.
    • hehe spooky dookers?2001 April 29, oldmolly, “A Different View of Ferrets in Our Lives?”, in alt.pets.ferrets (Usenet)
    • Congrats on both types of "babies" :) Having a dooker is wonderful! It might even spread to your other weasels - like G.I.R's did :)2002 February 2, scoiveg, “Ferret math strikes again”, in alt.pets.ferrets (Usenet)

Examples of dooker in a sentence

  • A few from the early years still take part but some of the first dookers believe that it has been tarnished by commercialism.2020 January 6, George Mair, “Original loony dookers disgusted by £12 ticket”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...
  • 'A dooker, one I confiscated many years ago from a workman here.1992, Tom Morton, Spirit of Adventure: A Journey Beyond the Whisky Trails, Edinburgh; London: Mainstream Publishing, →ISBN, pages 81–82:
  • A "dooker" is nothing more (or less) than a thing-a-ma-jig; very similar, y'know, to a do-lolly.1999 July 28, sarah curry, “Price for VSC”, in rec.crafts.textiles.quilting (Usenet):
  • Deaf as a frikken rock, but is a real dooker when he gets wound up.2004 June 10, lin, “In Other News.......”, in alt.pets.ferrets (Usenet):

Forms of dooker

pluraldookers

Origin of dooker

From dook + -er.

Phrases with dooker

Questions about dooker

What does dooker mean?
Dooker means swimming trunks.
How do you use dooker in a sentence?
A few from the early years still take part but some of the first dookers believe that it has been tarnished by commercialism.
What part of speech is dooker?
Dooker is a noun.
What is the plural of dooker?
The plural of dooker is dookers.

Words near dooker in the dictionary

  1. dooja
  2. doojigger
  3. doojiggers
  4. dook
  5. dooked
  6. dooker
  7. dookers
  8. dookie
  9. dookie braid
  10. dookie braids
  11. Dookie College

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