Hi folks,
 
I laughed out loud, (actually, I may have chortled out loud,) when I read
BIG's note at the end of one post about dooking.
 
Until I started reading the FML, I had never heard the term "dook" before.
I called it chortling.  It seemed to me that was exactly the noise the
word had been invented to describe.  I think Lewis Carroll must have had
ferrets.
 
Of course, by the book, the word is a portmanteau.  (Two words put
together, for two meanings in one word, like "limon" which is lemon and
lime.) It is "chuckle" and "snort".  But I think there is some onomatopoeia
going on as well.  I think if a human said the word "chortle" repeatedly
and quickly enough, it would approximate the sounds those fuzzies make.
 
Anyway, just had to laugh.
 
Melissa Barnes
[Posted in FML issue 3504]