Dit vs Doit - What's the difference?
dit | doit |
To stop up; block (an opening); close. Cf. Scots dit.
(archaic, rare) A ditty, a little melody.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
(obsolete) A word; a decree.
(historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
* c.'' 1606 , , Act 4, Scene 12:
(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
(music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
* 1995 , Music & Computers (volume 1, issues 2-4, page 57)
As nouns the difference between dit and doit
is that dit is a ditty, a little melody while doit is a small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.As a verb dit
is to stop up; block (an opening); close. Cf. Scots {{term|dit|lang=sco}}.dit
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ditten, .Verb
Etymology 2
Variant of dite.Noun
(en noun)- No bird, but did her shrill notes sweetly sing; / No song but did containe a louely dit : / Trees, braunches, birds, and songs were framed fit [...].
Etymology 3
Imitative.See also
* dahEtymology 4
Old English dyttan, akin to Icelandic ditta.Etymology 5
Shortening.Anagrams
* ----doit
English
Noun
(en noun)- most monster-like, be shown / For poor'st diminutives, for doits ;
- When / they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they / will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
- Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits , fall-offs, and scoops.