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DOO-DOO

Specialty Definition: DOO-DOO

DomainDefinition

Multilingual Slang

French (caca), Italian (cacca). (references)

Slang

Feces. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Usage: DOO-DOO

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Hi-dee, hi-dee boo boo, stick your head in doo-doo. (The Bernie Mac Show; writing credit: Marc Abrams; Michael Benson)

My grandfather's work was doo-doo! (Young Frankenstein; writing credit: Mary Shelley; Gene Wilder)

Well, you gotta know how deep the doo-doo is Ryg, if you're gonna dig your way out. (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: DOO-DOO

"DOO-DOO" is generally used as an unclassified items -- approximately 57.14% of the time. "DOO-DOO" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Unclassified Items57.14%4175,879
Noun (singular)42.86%3202,518
                    Total100.00%7N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: DOO-DOO

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "DOO-DOO": doo-doo-doodooo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DOO-DOO

Language Translations for "DOO-DOO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Hungarian

  

széklet (defecation, stool), kaka, ürülék (defecation, dejecta, dirt, excrement, faeces, feces, turd, waste product). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oo-dooday.(various references)

   

Thai

  

อึ (ใช้กับเ"็กๆ) (caca, kaka). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DOO-DOO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-d-o-o-o-o"

-2 letters: dodo.

-3 letters: odd.

-4 letters: do, od.

 Words containing the letters "d-d-o-o-o-o"
 

+2 letters: hoodooed, voodooed.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage Frequency
3. Expressions
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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