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Doat vs Doit - What's the difference?

doat | doit |

As a verb doat

is .

As a noun doit is

(historical) a small dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.

doat

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1676, author=Aphra Behn, title=The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III, chapter=The Town-Fop, edition= citation
    • , passage=Ye all doat upon him, but he's not the Man you take him for. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Robert Burns, title=Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns, chapter=Song, Composed in Spring, edition= citation
    • , passage=--And maun I still on Menie doat , And bear the scorn that's in her e'e? }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1825, author=William Hazlitt, title=The Spirit of the Age, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements. }}

    Anagrams

    * * ---- ==Volapük==

    Noun

    (vo-noun)
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    • Declension

    (vo-decl-noun)

    Derived terms

    * * ((l), ((l)) * ((l), (l)) * (l) * * ()

    See also

    * ) * (l) ((l), (l)) * (l) ((l), (l)) * (l) ((l), (l)) * ) * (l) ((l), (l))

    doit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
  • * c.'' 1606 , , Act 4, Scene 12:
    • most monster-like, be shown / For poor'st diminutives, for doits ;
  • (archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.
  • * 1819 , — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe
  • *:“Speak out, ye Saxon dogs — what bid ye for your worthless lives? — How say you, you of Rotherwood?” “Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba.
  • * 1610 , , act 2 scene 2
    • When / they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they / will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
  • (music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
  • * 1995 , Music & Computers (volume 1, issues 2-4, page 57)
    • Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits , fall-offs, and scoops.
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