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  • noun UK Baptist
  • noun US, slang, African American Vernacular feces

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In Scots, dookie, doukit, and douker have been used to refer to Baptists (the terms being related to the British English "duck", equivalent to the American English "dunk", a Baptist being, jocularly, someone who ducks or dunks people in water when baptising them.

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In the US, originally onomatopoeic baby-talk, later popularized by the band Green Day on their highly successful 1994 studio album.

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