Doot vs Doof - What's the difference?
doot | doof |
(chiefly, Scotland) doubt
* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition=
, 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=
, 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=
, passage="I think my pipe's on the mantelshelf," returned Geordie, "but I doot it's empty." }}
(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 ,
* 2006 , Christopher Hugh Partridge, The Re-Enchantment of the West: Alternative Spiritualities, Sacralization, Popular Culture and Occulture , Volume 2,
* 2007 , Australian National University Dept of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, Aboriginal History , Volume 31,
As a verb doot
is doubt.As a noun doof is
a simpleton.doot
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* ----doof
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Etymology 1
From dufusEtymology 2
Onomatopoeic, from the sound of a bass drum.Noun
(en noun)page 138,
- Dynamics of play and creativity are a prominent catalyst of social relations at both doofs and raves.
page 110,
- Similar themes emerged in the ‘doofs ’ of Australian rave culture.
page 76,
- The bush doof is a unique product of post-rave culture and is particularly suited to the expansive Australian landscape.