doo

1950s, from child speak.

• (UK) enPR: do͞o, IPA^(key): /duː/
• (US) enPR: do͞o, IPA^(key): /du/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /dʉː/

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: do (general), dew, due (yod-dropping)

doo

1. (childish) feces, particularly that of a dog.

   Synonyms: BM, doo-doo, doody, poo, poo-poo, poop

doo

1. (music) Used as a scat word in singing.
   • 1995, Phil Farrand, The Nitpicker's Guide for Next Generation Trekkers: Volume 2:

     (Ever feel like you've just entered... The Twilight Zone? Doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo....)

   • 2006, Steve Taylor, A to X of Alternative Music, page 272:

     […] the bloke who sang about coloured girls going 'doo de doo de doo doo d'de doo de doo de doo' had once had this thing with the guy who produced the debut albums by the Stooges and Patti Smith.

• doo-wop

• king of the doos

• ODO, OOD

doo

1. (interrogative) what
2. (interrogative) how

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.

doo

1. first-person singular present indicative of doar
2. (reintegrationist norm) first-person singular present indicative of doer

doo

1. cave

From Old Irish dub, from Proto-Celtic *dubus (“black”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“black”).

doo

1. black
2. inky

   Synonym: dooagh

• Yn Vooir Ghoo (“the Black Sea”)

doo m (genitive singular doo, plural dooghyn)

1. ink

doo

1. to ink

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /tòː/

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doo

1. Part of the negative correlative:

   doo ... da

   doo yáʼátʼééh da ― it is not good

2. With a nominalizer, forms a negative noun phrase:

   doo yáʼátʼéehii ― that which isn’t good

   doo naalnishii ― the one who isn’t working

   doo bénáshniihígíí ― that which I don’t remember

3. With a verb + -góó, forms a negative conditional:

   Doo naashnishgóó níká adeeshwoł. ― If I’m not working, I’ll help you.

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doo

1. Abbreviation of dooleeł (“it will be”).
2. When paired with ńtʼééʼ, forms a conditional:

   Dine bizaad bóhooshʼaah doo ńtʼééʼ. ― I should have studied Navajo.

   Éí nizhóní doo ńtʼééʼ. ― That would have been nice; that could have been nice.

• dóó
• -dóó

doo

1. (obsolete) past plural of døy

• Rhymes: -ou
• Homophone: dou-o
• Hyphenation: do‧o

doo

1. first-person singular present indicative of doar

Compare Assamese দা (da, “a big knife”)

doo

1. knife

From Middle English douf, from Old English *dūfe (compare woman's given name Dūfe).

Akin to Old High German tūba (“dove, pigeon”), Icelandic dúfa (“dove, pigeon”), Dúfa (woman's first name)), Danish dove, pigeon, Norwegian Bokmål due (“dove, pigeon”), Norwegian Nynorsk due (“dove, pigeon”) and Swedish duva (“dove, pigeon”).

• IPA^(key): /duː/, /dʌu/

doo (plural doos)

1. dove, pigeon (bird of the dove and pigeon family: Columbidae)
   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     She never seemed to want for siller; the house was as bright as a new preen, the yaird better delved than the manse garden; and there was routh of fowls and doos about the small steading, forbye a wheen sheep and milk-kye in the fields.

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• King of the Doos (“English Carrier (an old domestic pigeon breed)”)

doo

1. song

• Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Dagur Elements in Solon Evenki, 2012.

Borrowed from English dough.[1]

doo (n class, plural doo)

1. (Sheng) money

   Synonym: pesa

From Proto-Mixtec *ⁿdòòʔ.

doo

1. cane

• Alvarado, Francisco de (1593) Vocabulario en lengua misteca (in Spanish), Mexico: En casa de Pedro Balli, page 43v: “caña de comer. doo.”