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Doat vs Dolt - What's the difference?

doat | dolt |

As verbs the difference between doat and dolt

is that doat is while dolt is (obsolete) to behave foolishly.

As a noun dolt is

(pejorative) a stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.

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

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    Noun

    (vo-noun)
  • finger

    • 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))

    dolt

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pejorative) A stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.
  • * c. 1603 ,
    • O gull! O dolt ! As ignorant as dirt!
  • * Drayton
    • This Puck seems but a dreaming dolt .

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * doltish

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To behave foolishly.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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