Doot vs Dolt - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between doot and dolt

is that doot is (chiefly|scotland) doubt while dolt is (obsolete) to behave foolishly.

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

(head)

(chiefly, Scotland) doubt

* {{quote-book, year=1902, author=Jack London, title=A Daughter of the Snows, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="Mair'd be a bother; an' I doot not ye'll mak' it all richt, lad." }}

* {{quote-book, year=1917, author=John Hay Beith, title=All In It: K(1) Carries On, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=No doot he'll try to pass himself off as an officer, for to get better quarters!" }}

(chiefly, Scotland) think

* {{quote-book, year=1920, author=James C. Welsh, title=The Underworld, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="I think my pipe's on the mantelshelf," returned Geordie, "but I doot it's empty." }}

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(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 .

* See also

* doltish

(en verb)

(obsolete) To behave foolishly.

(Webster 1913)

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