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dukey

adjective

dukey is spelled D-U-K-E-Y: 5 letters. It appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, dukey means “Alternative form of dookie (“ostentatiously thick”)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in dukey?

Letters5: D-U-K-E-Y
In writingabout once in every 32 million words; the 173,967th 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 dukey?

Dukey appears about once in every 32 million words in written English, the 173,967th 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).

Forms of dukey

  • dookie
  • dooky

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

What does dukey mean?

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

adjective

  1. 1

    Alternative form of dookie (“ostentatiously thick”).

    […] dukey rope around his neck. “Looks like another gangsta bit the dust in a driveby in Inglewood last night," the voice announced from the radio."

noun

  1. 1

    UKobsoleteslangA penny gaff.

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

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