dookie, n. — Green’s Dictionary of Slang

dookie n.

also dookey, dukey, dukie

[? Scot. dook, the bung of a cask]

1. excrement.

1965		B. Jackson Get Your Ass in the Water (1974) 206: He banged on my door and he kicked it rough, / he called me dukie-head and demanded my stuff.
1972		E. Sanders Family 53: An incredible mountain of horse dooky.
1973		Andrews & Owens Black Lang. 105: Dukey-A nice way for calling it shit.
1984		K. Weaver Texas Crude 40: He can’t run fast enough to scatter his dookii.
1985		T.R. Houser Central Sl. 20: dukie [...] ‘Willie smeared dukie on the football and threw it to Dingo.’.
2001		OnLine Dict. of Playground Sl. 🌐 dookie n. excrement, poo, faeces, i.e. shit.

2. (US black) an act of defecation; thus dukie hole, the anus.

1983		R. Klein Jailhouse Jargon and Street Sl. [unpub. ms.].
1997–2002		Hope College ‘Dict. of New Terms’ 🌐 dookie v. intr. The act of excreting solid waste matter out of the rear portion of one’s body.
2002		J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 101: Kansas makes another dookie announcement.
2012		G. Pelecanos (con. 1972) What It Was 190: My stomach hurts! I gotta make some dookie!

3. nothing.

1984

D. Jenkins Life Its Ownself (1985) 344: TCU don’t mean dookie to Aubrin.

4. rubbish, nonsense.

1991

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure [Fox-TV] Good music instead of that dooky you used to play.

5. the stuffing, the ‘daylights’.

1990

New Yorker 17 Sept. 73: I would have stomped the dooky out of him.

6. (US campus) an unpleasant, obnoxious person.

1996

Eble Sl. and Sociability 41: Dook ‘something unpleasant or worthless’ and dookie ‘someone obnoxious’ omit the front glide pronounced before the vowel in duke (as in rival Duke University) to make the word sound more derogatory.

7. (US black, also dookie roll, dookie rope) a heavy gold chain necklace.

1988		7A3 ‘Lucifer’ 🎵 He was robbin a sister for her dookie gold.
1988		MC Shan ‘So Def’ 🎵 Before they started callin dookie ropes cables.
1999		King Tee ‘Skanless’ 🎵 Dookie gold ropes, silk suits to flaunt.
2007		mtv.com 🌐 Artists such as [...] Kanye West, Pharrell Williams, Nelly and Nas [are] bringing back the world-famous gold rope chains — or as they were christened in the '80s, ‘dookie ropes’ (also known to some as ’dookie rolls’).
2010		Kanye West ‘Take One for the Team’ 🎵 Dookie rope link chain and a herringbone.

8. US black hair arranged in thick braids.

1991

Mhisani ‘Call It Like I See It’ 🎵 Light or dark skin, hair down or in dookie braids.

In compounds

dookie love (n.)

(US black) anal intercourse.

2000

Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 dookie love Definition: to bust a nut in a bitches ass Example: Yo money, I gave that bitch some mad dookie love!

dookie maker (n.)

(US) the anus.

2015

A Schumer ‘Milk Milk Lemonade’ 🎵 Turd cutter / Loaf pitcher [sic] / Dookie maker / Fudge machine .

In phrases

drop a dookie (v.) (also blast a dookie, do dookie, make a dookie, take a dookie)

(US) to defecate.

1998		(con. 1986) G. Pelecanos Sweet Forever 83: That stuff in the blue plastic bottle, the stuff that made babies do dookie real quick.
1999		C. Omine ‘Little Big Mom’ in The Simpsons 18 May [TV script] bart: Can I go to the bathroom? otto: Uh, uh – say it in snowboard. bart: Um, I’ve got to blast a dookie? otto: Dook on!
2002		(con. 1998–2000) J. Lerner You Got Nothing Coming 90: It starts off just as Kansas is announcing he needs to ‘drop a dookie’. [Ibid.] 101: This may be more information than anyone needs, but there is a certain etiquette to taking a dookie in a prison cell.
2004		Simon & Pelecanos ‘Amsterdam’ Wire ser. 3 ep. 4 [TV script] ‘All he to do was tinkle.’ ‘Maybe he felt the need to make a dookie too’.

scare the dooky out of (v.)

(US) to terrify.

2003

G. Hampton ‘Thunderhawk – The Impact of the Legend of the Robin Redbeast’ in Canku Ota Issue 93 9 Aug. 🌐 ‘Hey bro’! Let’s jump out from behind a couple of trees and scare the dooky out of them!’ Paden said, ‘Cool! Let’s do it!’.