doo

Pronunciation

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

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• Rhymes: -uː
• Homophones: dew, do, due

Noun

doo

1. (childish) Feces.

Interjection

doo

1. (music) Used as a scat word in song lyrics.
   • 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.

Anagrams

• OOD

Pronoun

doo

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

References

• Greenhill, S.J., Blust. R, & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.

Noun

doo

1. cave

Etymology

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

Adjective

doo

1. black
2. inky

Noun

doo m (genitive singular doo, plural dooghyn)

1. ink

Verb

doo

1. to ink

Mutation

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Particle

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. Pairing doo 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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Verb

doo

1. it will be (abbreviated form of dooleeł)
2. paired with ńtʼééʼ, it 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.

Verb

doo

1. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of doer
2. First-person singular (eu) present indicative of doar

Etymology

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

Noun

doo

1. knife

Etymology

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)), Swedish duva (“dove, pigeon”), Norwegian and Danish due (“dove, pigeon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duː/, /dʌu/

Noun

doo (plural doos)

1. dove (bird of the pigeon family, Columbidae)