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Doot vs Doof - What's the difference?

doot | doof |

As a verb doot

is doubt.

As a noun doof is

a simpleton.

doot

English

Verb

(head)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) doubt
  • * {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="Mair'd be a bother; an' I doot not ye'll mak' it all richt, lad." }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1917, author=John Hay Beith, title=All In It: K(1) Carries On, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=No doot he'll try to pass himself off as an officer, for to get better quarters!" }}
  • (chiefly, Scotland) think
  • * {{quote-book, year=1920, author=James C. Welsh, title=The Underworld, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="I think my pipe's on the mantelshelf," returned Geordie, "but I doot it's empty." }}

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    doof

    English

    Etymology 1

    From dufus

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, slang) A simpleton.
  • Etymology 2

    Onomatopoeic, from the sound of a bass drum.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, slang) A type of music with pronounced bass typically associated with the modified car scene; doof-doof.
  • (Australia) An outdoor dance party, held in bushland in a remote area or on the outskirts of a city.
  • * 2004 , Graham St John (editor), Rave Culture and Religion , page 138,
  • Dynamics of play and creativity are a prominent catalyst of social relations at both doofs and raves.
  • * 2006 , Christopher Hugh Partridge, The Re-Enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture , Volume 2, page 110,
  • Similar themes emerged in the ‘doofs ’ of Australian rave culture.
  • * 2007 , Australian National University Dept of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Aboriginal History , Volume 31, page 76,
  • The bush doof is a unique product of post-rave culture and is particularly suited to the expansive Australian landscape.
    Derived terms
    * doof-doof
    See also
    * (wikipedia "doof")

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