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Coit vs Cit - What's the difference?

coit | cit |

As nouns the difference between coit and cit

is that coit is a quoit while cit is townsman, city dweller.

As a verb coit

is to throw, as a stone.

coit

English

Etymology 1

See quoit.

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A quoit.
    • (Carew)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To throw, as a stone.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 2

    Back-formation from coitus.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To have sexual intercourse; to mate.
    • ----

    cit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic, derogatory) townsman, city dweller
  • * 1856, , The Piazza
    • Not forgotten are the blue noses of the carpenters, and how they scouted at the greenness of the cit , who would build his sole piazza to the north.

    References

    * Oxford English Dictionary

    Anagrams

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