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dood

noun

Etymology

Back-formation from dudhwallah, doodwallah (“milk-man”, literally “milk-ward”), reinterpreting the wallah of milk as a wallah of camels by dint of misremembrance of the Bengali word for “camel” which is উট (uṭ).

Definitions

  1. A riding camel or dromedary.

    • “I have never seen it,” he replied, “but I have seen them attack a dood.” “What is a dood?” “A camel; one of a troop fording the river.”

  2. Eye dialect spelling of dude.

    • "Talk about yer doods," said a Texas stockman, on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train last night, "but a leetle the doodest dood I ever seen wuz a feller that come down from Boston into our kentry a year ago las' September."
    • On the dood ranch the dweller from the city can renew his almost forgotten ambition to be one with the rider of the Western plains --the cowpuncher, the Indian fighter, the pony express rider, the buffalo hunter, the scout.

  3. Alternative form of doot.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA