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Doot vs Doon - What's the difference?

doot | doon |

As a verb doot

is (chiefly|scotland) doubt.

As an adverb doon is

(geordie) down.

As a preposition doon is

(geordie) down.

As an adjective doon is

(geordie) on a lower level than before; down.

doot

English

Verb

(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." }}

    Anagrams

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    doon

    English

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (Geordie) down

    • Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • (Geordie) down

    • Adjective

    (-)
  • (Geordie) On a lower level than before; down.
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