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Dookie vs Doozie - What's the difference?

dookie | doozie |

As nouns the difference between dookie and doozie

is that dookie is (uk) baptist or dookie can be (us|slang|african american vernacular english) feces while doozie is (us) something that is extraordinary often used in the context of troublesome, difficult or problematic, but can be used positively as well.

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)
  • (UK) Baptist
  • *1895 Dictionary of the Scots Language [http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/snda4frames.php?dtext=snd&query=DOOK]

    • Etymology 2

    In the US, probably alteration of , baby-talk reduplication of do, later popularized by the band .

    Noun

    (-)
  • (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!
    • Synonyms
    * See also

    doozie

    English

    Noun

    (doozies)
  • (US) something that is extraordinary. Often used in the context of troublesome, difficult or problematic, but can be used positively as well.
    • Most of the test was easy, but the last question was a doozie .

    Alternative forms

    * doozy

    Synonyms

    * lulu