Dood vs Dook - What's the difference?
dood | dook |
(dialect) duck
* 1835 , James Baillie Fraser, The Highland smugglers, Volume 2
As a proper noun dood
is death; the personification of death.As a verb dook is
(of a ferret) to make a certain clucking sound or dook can be (dialect) duck.As a noun dook is
a strong, untwilled linen or cotton.dook
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.Etymology 2
(duck)Verb
(en verb)- 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...