dookie

Meanings

Noun

• Baptist
• swimming costume, bathing suit
• feces

Adjective

• (derivation from earlier and more common use of noun) describing gold jewelry which is thick in circumference (often to excessiveness), reminiscent of the thickness of feces

Origin

• 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.
• Probably alteration of doo-doo, baby-talk reduplication of do, later repopularized by the 1989 film No Holds Barred and later still the 1994 Green Day album Dookie.