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Doating vs Goating - What's the difference?

doating | goating |

As verbs the difference between doating and goating

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

As a noun goating is

a scapegoating.

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.

    goating

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A scapegoating
  • An event at a fraternal organization, derived from scapegoating
  • * 1898 , The Sigma Chi Quarterly: The Official Organ of the Sigma Chi Fraternity , page 135
    • The field has been worked over very thoroughly and the spring " goatings " will not be very numerous.
  • * p.'' 1905 , ''Sigma Phi Epsilon Journal , page 345
    • With soirees, parties, germans and goatings , our time has passed away only too quickly
  • * 1912 , Caduceus of Kappa Sigma , page 420
    • Balls', teas, goatings and baseball games follow one another in rapid succession.
  • * 1999 , Susan Tyler Hitchcock, The University of Virginia: A Pictorial History , page 108
    • Phi Delta Phi, staged annual "goatings ," in which students caricatured professors mercilessly.

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