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doo-doo, n. slang (orig. and chiefly N. Amer.). euphem.
Brit. |ˈduːduː|, U.S. |ˈduˈdu|
Forms: 19– do-do, 19– doo-doo
[Reduplication of do n.1 (compare do n.1 Additions e). Compare pooh pooh n. 3.]
1. Faeces, excrement. Cf. do n.1 Additions e.
Originally used in speech to and by children.
1954Jrnl. Educ. Psychol. 28 186 A similar need, to have pants unbuttoned so he could go to the toilet, did not induce him to learn to say ‘unbutton’ nor even to say ‘make doo-doo’. 1978S. King Stand ii. 11 Any gull..dropping a splat of white doodoo. 1992M. Blonsky Amer. Mythologies (1993) xix. 459 Next to the dog doo-doo..are the books, scores of them neatly arranged in rank and file.
2. fig. Nonsense, rubbish.
1954Jrnl. Educ. Psychol. 28 186 He knew the word ‘doo-doo’ and used it as the other children did, as a term of derision, equivalent to dirty or old, worn-out, no good. 1958T. Berger Crazy in Berlin iv. 60 Is Pound going to start that awful Cook's Tour doodoo again? 1973Burlington (N. Carolina) Daily Times News 14 Sept. 7/2 You call that living? I call it doo-doo. 2001S. Fatsis Word Freak xix. 291 Too many players..consider Maven's judgments to be gospel. ‘Sim is doo-doo.’
3. In phrases where ‘shit’ would be more usual.
1989Progressive Aug. 35/1 Fourteen Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have resigned because..the team's new owner is trying to turn them into sex objects. Says I to myself, ‘No doo-doo?’ 1990K. Vonnegut Hocus Pocus xviii. 142 What I may have said..is that all nations bigger than Denmark are crocks of doo-doo, but that was a joke, of course. 1999M. Syal Life isn't all Ha Ha Hee Hee (2000) vii. 327 That's when the proverbial doo-doo hit a rather larger fan and it all went off. 2000Front Oct. 139/4 What starts out as good, clean American fun, ends in tears, as they find out they're in deep doo-doo. |