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Boating vs Doating - What's the difference?

boating | doating |

As verbs the difference between boating and doating

is that boating is while doating is (obsolete) ; doting.

As a noun boating

is the activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat.

boating

English

Noun

  • the activity of going out onto a body of water in a boat
  • * 1853 , Charlotte Mary Yonge, The Heir of Redclyffe (volume 1, page 95)
    • I like nothing better than to hear of your ridings, and shootings, and boatings .
  • (historical) In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • doating

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) ; doting
  • * 1919, , Duckworth, hardback edition, page 88
    • "Nowadays, the young people sit while their elders stand!" the Abbot succinctly said, riveting a curly-pated enfant de coeur lolling coxcombically beneath the nose of a doating Statilia.