Doit vs Dolt - What's the difference?
doit | dolt |
(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 doit and dolt
is that doit is (historical) a small dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver while dolt is (pejorative) a stupid person; a blockhead or dullard.As a verb dolt is
(obsolete) to behave foolishly.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.
