Mook vs Dook - What's the difference?
mook | dook |
(slang, forensic accounting) A manipulated or rigged set of business accounting ledgers.
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(dialect) duck
* 1835 , James Baillie Fraser, The Highland smugglers, Volume 2
As verbs the difference between mook and dook
is that mook is while dook is (of a ferret) to make a certain clucking sound or dook can be (dialect) duck.As a noun dook is
a strong, untwilled linen or cotton.mook
English
(wikipedia mook)Etymology 1
Unknown. Probably a variation of ""moke" ("donkey", "fool"). Possible from Cantonese 'mook jung'' ("dead wood" or "wooden dummy").Etymology 2
(usually used in plural)Noun
(en noun)dook
English
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.Etymology 2
(duck)Verb
(en verb)- But anger is a blin' guide — he dooked from the first blow, an' it passed wi' little ill; an' he raised his drawn sword, an' made a wild cut at my head...