dookers

Noun

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)
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...
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)
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
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

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