Word: dooker Part of Speech: noun 1. Swimming trunks. Labels: Scotland, in-plural Example: And that reminds me... I got new dookers a couple of weeks ago and I haven't tried it on yet. Example: You'll be packing in boozing next because of the alcohol that's in it. (Ethyl-Alcohol being toxic, of course...) - and swimmingน^([sic]), for fear of taking in a gobful of chlorinated water (you should see how my dookers have faded since using Penrith swimming pool; what's it doing to my innards?) 2. A loony dooker. Labels: Scotland Example: 'It was fantastic being a 'Dooker' welcoming the new year. It's terrific how much energy and excitement the Loony Dook generates and the fantastic fancy dress costumes people make and the money generated for charity. We'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy New Year! Example: This classic New Year's Day dip in the River Forth sees people in fancy dress jump into the water in the shadow of the Forth bridges. Spectators can cheer on the "dookers" at the beach or along the route of the parade towards South Queensferry. 3. A bather. Labels: Scotland Example: Nairn, as with Lossiemouth and some other Moray coast towns and villages, had good bathing beaches. At the more fashionable resorts the facilities for bathing included a number of bathing machines. For less hardy dookers, indoor salt-water baths were seen as essential amenities. 4. A piece of poo. Labels: slang Example: Last summer a couple of buddies and I were camping. After a bit too much bourbon, my buddy goes into the woods to shit. He drops his pants and grabs a tree. One key point- he forgot to lean back and dropped a dooker into is^([sic]) drawers. We didn't let him back to the campfire circle. Example: Afghans didn't sit on the toilet seat to take a dooker. Instead they climbed on the seat and squatted over the hole, which left the seats soiled with mud and often crap (Afghans are notoriously bad aimers). 5. A thing whose actual name is unknown or forgotten; doohickey. Example: John goes to a cupboard. Out of it he takes a copper tube, about two feet long and an inch and a half wide. It is sealed at one end and has a leather thong at the other. 'There you are,' he says. 'A dooker, one I confiscated many years ago from a workman here. That's something else we just don't get any trouble with any more. People are more responsible nowadays.' Example: A "dooker" is nothing more (or less) than a thing-a-ma-jig; very similar, y'know, to a do-lolly. Silly gurrlll ... you can find a copper dooker (at least at MY hardware store) in the same aisle where you find the copper pipe. I haven't a CLUE what it's called, but it just fits right onto the end of the pipe (if you get the right sized dooker, which is always an important consideration — that the dooker be the right size — right, John? :-) ). It's not an "elbow", and it doesn't have a "T-shape." It has a little end that fits over the pipe, and it just blumps out to become a bigger size ... and it looks just a whole LOT like what the fashion gurus call a FINIAL! 6. An oddball. Example: The porch door opens and MacAllan comes in. His nose is up already, sniffing the metal money, trust a dooker from Havelock Close to enter the front door of a man's house without a knock even though it be a bank now. 7. A wild boar. Example: And among the numerous herds of semi-wild pigs snuffling for acorns close to the roadsides, one can see an occasional pigling with the striped back which to an old hoghunter brings to mind a picture of a 'dooker' emerging from the forests like a human bandit to take his pleasure with some domestic sow, less well guarded than her sisters, or perhaps less discriminating and, like Spada's lady-friend, with a taste for something a little wild and shaggy. 8. Loon. Example: So as we toiled at the oar over the calm clear water of Loch Linnhe, and saw the flocks of gulls and dookers dotting the sea around and about us, we asked ourselves if this were not the forerunner of the anticipated herring shoals?