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Rook vs Dook - What's the difference?

rook | dook |

As nouns the difference between rook and dook

is that rook is skirt while dook is a strong, untwilled linen or cotton.

As a verb dook is

(of a ferret) to make a certain clucking sound or dook can be (dialect) duck.

rook

English

Etymology 1

(etyl) rok, roke, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • A European bird, Corvus frugilegus , of the crow family.
  • * Pennant
    • The rook should be treated as the farmer's friend.
  • A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
    • (Wycherley)
  • (British) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
  • A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
    • Synonyms
    * (swindler) swindler, cheat
    Hypernyms
    * (bird) bird * (firecracker) firecracker

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cheat or swindle.
  • * 1974 , (GB Edwards), The Book of Ebenezer Le Page , New York 2007, p. 311:
    • Some had spent a week in Jersey before coming to Guernsey; and, from what Paddy had heard, they really do know how to rook the visitors over there.
    Synonyms
    * (sense) cheat, con, do, dupe, have, swindle

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) roc, ultimately from (etyl) . Compare (roc).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.
  • (rare) A castle or other fortification.
    • Synonyms
    * (chesspiece) castle
    See also
    * *
    See also
    * squab

    Etymology 3

    From rookie .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (baseball, slang) A rookie.

    • Etymology 4

    Noun

    (-)
  • mist; fog; roke

    • Etymology 5

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.
    • (Shakespeare)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    dook

    English

    Etymology 1

    Onomatopoeic.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (of a ferret) To make a certain clucking sound.

    • Etymology 2

    (duck)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (dialect) duck
  • * 1835 , James Baillie Fraser, The Highland smugglers, Volume 2
    • 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...

    Etymology 3

    From (etyl) . See also (l) (cloth).

    Alternative forms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a strong, untwilled linen or cotton.
    • Derived terms
    * (l) * (l) ----