Dookie vs Crap - What's the difference?
dookie | crap |
(UK) Baptist
*1895 Dictionary of the Scots Language [http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/snda4frames.php?dtext=snd&query=DOOK]
(US, slang, African American Vernacular English) feces
*2002 – Ashaki Boelter: Hate Begets Hate [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0972106731&id=99phDZkAgdwC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&ots=PSY2eD5xsG&dq=%22to+get+that+dookie+off+those+ruined+sneakers%22&sig=wbxWie8AeuTdlHTMDte6wXdK9Iw] (page 69)
*:"He stepped in some cow waste; it serves him right. Look at him dancing to get that dookie off those ruined sneakers! Ha-ha-ha! Get down homie!"
*2002 – Jarrett Oliver: Private Eyes [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0595213804&id=PoOEYuGdPVkC&pg=RA1-PA125&lpg=RA1-PA125&ots=B4TI8Ys16d&dq=%22worth+a+lump+of+dookie+%22&sig=Apf_JxL5FDRbU2Ku0oBvOfrPoJY] (page 125)
*:"That stuff won't be worth a lump of dookie in court. It wouldn't be at all hard for Geale to pull a few strings and get documented permission for having each one of those items."
*2005 – Ashaki Boelter: In the Name of Love!: All-4-Love Series 2 of 3 [http://books.google.com/books?q=%22So+Alley+found+a+job+Scooping+up+dookie+on+the+streets%22&btnG=Search+Books] (Reckless Review)
*:So Alley found a job
*:Scooping up dookie on the streets
*2000 – "
*:: Can I go to the bathroom?
*:: Uh-uh! Say it in snowboard lingo.
*:Bart:' Uh... I've gotta blast a ' dookie ?
*:Otto: Dook on!
(obsolete) The husk of grain; chaff.
(slang) Something of poor quality.
(slang, vulgar) Something that is rubbish; nonsense.
(slang, vulgar) Faeces or feces.
(slang, vulgar, countable) An act of defecation.
(slang) Useless object or entity.
(vulgar, slang) To defecate.
(chiefly, UK, colloquial, somewhat, vulgar) Of poor quality.
(slang) Expression of worry, fear, shock, surprise, disgust, annoyance or dismay.
As a noun dookie
is (uk) baptist or dookie can be (us|slang|african american vernacular english) feces.dookie
English
Etymology 1
In Scots, dookie, doukit, and douker have been used to refer to Baptists (the terms being related to the British English "duck", equivalent to the American English "dunk", a Baptist being, jocularly, someone who ducks or dunks people in water when baptising them.Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
In the US, probably alteration of , baby-talk reduplication of do, later popularized by the band .Noun
(-)Synonyms
* See alsocrap
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) crappe, also in plural: crappen, crappys, . Related to (l).Noun
(en-noun)- The long-running game show went from offering good prizes to crap in no time.
- The college student boasted of completing a 10,000-word essay on Shakespeare, but the professor judged it as utter crap .
- ''I have to take a crap
- What is that?'' ''It's just a bunch of crap
Verb
(crapp)Derived terms
* crap on - (UK) To talk at length in a foolish or boring way. * To crap something out: to damage or destroy something.Adjective
(crapper)- I drove an old crap car for ten years before buying a new one.
Alternative forms
* crappy (chiefly, North America)Synonyms
* lousy * shit * shite * bollocks * piss * fuck * DeuceInterjection
(en interjection)- Oh crap! The other driver's going to hit my car!
- Crap! I lost the game.
- What the crap ?!
- Aw, crap , I have to start over again from the beginning of the level.