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dookie

/ˈduːki/noun, adjective

dookie is spelled D-O-O-K-I-E: 6 letters. It appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, dookie means “swimming costume, bathing suit” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of dookie is dookies.

How many letters and syllables are in dookie?

Letters6: D-O-O-K-I-E
In writingabout once in every 5 million words; the 63,645th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is dookie?

Dookie appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 63,645th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce dookie?

  • /ˈduːki/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-dookie.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of dookie

  • dookies plural
  • dooky

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does dookie mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Scotlandswimming costume, bathing suit

  2. 2

    USslangFeces.

    So Alley found a job Scooping up dookie on the streets

  3. 3

    Alternative form of dukey (“penny gaff”).

adjective

  1. 1

    USslangOf jewelry: ostentatiously thick.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Where does dookie come from?

In Scots, dookie, doukit, and douker (terms related to the British English duck, equivalent to the American English dunk) have all been used to refer to Baptists. Hence a dookie in Scots is, jocularly, someone who ducks or dunks people in water when baptising them.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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