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dookie | null |

As nouns the difference between dookie and null

is that dookie is (uk) baptist or dookie can be (us|slang|african american vernacular english) feces while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

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

    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
    • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
    • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.

    • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
    • (Milton)

    Related terms

    * annul

    See also

    * nil ----